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by Theresa Kishkan

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Published: 1999

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A wanderer arrives by chance on Inishbream, a tiny island off the coast of Ireland. A lover of boats and a strong worker, she soon marries the young owner of her stone cottage. Through the winter, she repays Inishbream storytellers with tales of coastal British Columbia. Then the islanders learn they’re to move to the mainland. But she must leave. In the islanders' soft dialect and the wanderer's own tongue, Inishbream conjures relationships between the newcomer and her husband, between the island people, the sea, and the land, and between the coastal landscapes of reality and imagination. Theresa Kishkan is an award-winning writer of fiction, poetry, and essays who lives in British Columbia. Literary Fiction, Canadian Author.

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