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|title=Academy Street
|author=Mary Costello
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary= WeIt is 1944. Tess Lohan're expecting s mother has just died at age 40, of tuberculosis. Seven-year-old Tess is one of six children in a rural Irish family. They live at Easterfield, a review centuries-old manor house. A teacher later tells Tess the history of this book very soonher home: built in 1678, it was a famine hospital in the 1840s; there are numerous corpses buried on the land.He hints there may be many ghosts on the property, but the only one that haunts Tess is her dead mother. 'Memories and traces of her mother must linger all over the house – in rooms and halls and landings. The dent of her feet on a rug. On a cup, the mark of her hand.'
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782114181</amazonuk>
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