The visitor

Maeve Brennan

earliest edition we have, 2000 Counterpoint, 2000 84 pages

"The Visitor is the haunting tale of Anastasia King, who, at the age of twenty-two, returns to her grandmother's house - the very house where she grew up - after six long years away. She has been in Paris, comforting her disgraced and dying mother, the runaway from a disastrous marriage to Anastasia's late father, the grandmother's only son. "It's a pity she sent for you," the grandmother says, smiling with anger. "A...

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Visitor edition · 2025 · Peninsula Press Limited · 144 pages · 9781913512644
Visitor edition · 2025 · Peninsula Press · 144 pages · 9781913512637
Visitor edition · 2015 · Counterpoint Press · 96 pages · 9781619026520
The Visitor paperback · 2002 · Atlantic Books · 96 pages · 9781903809778
The visitor edition · 2001 · New Island · 86 pages
Visitor edition · 2001 · Counterpoint Press · 96 pages · 9781582431611
The visitor edition · 2000 · Counterpoint · 84 pages

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