Island Child

Molly Aitken

earliest edition we have, 2020 Vintage, 2021 paperback 352 pages

"A spellbinding, deeply felt debut novel--haunting and poignant, soaring and gorgeously wrought--about motherhood, freedom, and our own power to shape our destinies. Oona grew up on the island of Inis: a wind-blasted rock off the coast of Ireland where the men went out on fishing boats and the women tended sheep; where the only book was the Bible; and where girls stayed at home until they became mothers themselves. E...

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Island Child edition · 2021 · Canongate Books · 9781786898340
The Island Child paperback · 2021 · Vintage · 352 pages · 9780593080917
Island Child edition · 2020 · Canongate Books · 9781786898357
Island Child edition · 2020 · Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group · 336 pages · 9780525658375
Island Child edition · 2020 · Canongate Books · 320 pages · 9781786898333

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