The Dowry

Walter Keady

earliest edition we have, 2006 Ulverscroft, 2006 414 pages

In 1946 rural Ireland, Brideen Conway lusts after Kieran McDermott but the couple cannot afford to marry. Meanwhile, wealthy publican Austin Glynn is offering a substantial dowry for any suitable mate for his homely daughter, Aideen. The competition is fierce. Father Donovan plots to acquire the dowry to enable Brideen and other young parishioners to marry and have children; Martin McDermott, the local rake, schemes...

Where to get it

Search WorldCat (worldwide union catalog) for this title

This opens a library search. We don't know what any library holds — the search may come back empty.

Change library
You pick this yourself. We don't guess it from your location, and we don't record where you are.

How it reads

Pace We don't know yet not analysed yet
Density We don't know yet not analysed yet
Tone We don't know yet not analysed yet

Your log

Sign in to log this book — your log is private to you.

What readers call it

No reader has tagged this one yet — be the first.

Sign in to confirm or add — reader tags are the only source of this information.

Content warnings

Reported by readers, not by us or the author. Unreported is not the same as absent.

No content warnings reported. That means no reader has added one yet — not that this book has none.

Also called trigger warnings. Reader reporting opens with the reading log.

Add a content warning

Editions we hold

The Dowry hardcover · 2007 · Thomas Dunne Books · 224 pages · 9780312361914
The dowry edition · 2006 · Robert Hale · 224 pages · 9780709080275
The dowry edition · 2006 · Ulverscroft · 414 pages · 9781846175152

Bibliographic facts on this page come from the Open Library monthly dump (CC0) unless a correction says otherwise. Nothing here is generated.