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    Mary Lavelle

    Kate O'Brien

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    Mary Lavelle, a beautiful young Irish woman, travels to Spain to see some of the world before marrying her steadfast fiance John. But despite the enchanting surroundings and her three charming charges, life as governess to the wealthy Areavaga family is lonely and she is homesick.

    Then comes the arrival of the family's handsome, passionate - and married - son Juanito and Mary's loyalties and beliefs are challenged. Falling in love with Juanito and with Spain, Mary finds herself at the heart of a family and a nation divided.

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    Praise for Mary Lavelle

    • 'A superior type of romantic novel quasi-intelligent and discursive, colourful and unorthodox' TLS'She writes with almost poetic intensity of the ecstasy and anguish of love' Val Hennessy

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    Kate O'Brien

    Kate O'Brien

    Kate O'Brien (1897-1974) lived in London and also in Spain, where she developed a passionate and enduring love of Spanish literature and culture. One of the twentieth century's greatest novelists, her fiction broke new ground in Irish writing by focusing on the prosperous Catholic bourgeoisie and by giving central importance to women's struggle for selfhood in a rigidly sex-stereotyped society.

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