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1782114203

Academy Street.

Author: Costello, Mary.

Publication year: 2015

Language: English

Media class: Paperback

Publisher: Edinburgh : Canongate, 2015.

ISBN: 1782114203 9781782114208 (pbk): 8.99

Notes:

Originally published: 2014.

Growing up in the west of Ireland in the 1940s Tess is a shy introverted child. But beneath her quiet exterior lies a heart of fire. A fire that will later drive her to make her home among the hurly burly of 1960s New York. Over four decades and a life lived with quiet intensity on Academy Street in upper Manhattan, Tess encounters ferocious love and calamitous loss. But what endures is her bravery and fortitude, and her striking insights even as she is 'floating close to hazard.'