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Why Stand I Here?
by Rosemary Conroy
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 22nd January, 2008
ISBN: 978-1-906018-31-3
Price: €15
After years of praying and longing to go home, the wonderful day came at last and the future was going to be perfect in every way…
This is the sequel to Flowers of the Fairest, a sparkling account of the relationship between three girls who lie strapped to their beds on the veranda of a TB hospital in the 1940s. All three are just seven years old, and ahead of them lie three years of sharing their thoughts, pitting their wits against each other, sometimes falling out and all the time dreaming of home, which seems as far away as heaven.
Why Stand I Here? is about what happened next, as the returning child tries to fit back into family and school life and slowly begins to grow up in the Dublin of those post war years.
About the author
Rosemary Conry now lives in Windsor. This is her second book.
‘Why Stand I here like a ghost, like a shadow
Tis time I were moving, tis time I passed on.’ - The Old House, Thomas Moore
