The Nature of Water and Air
Author: Regina McBride
“My mother was never easy in the world of houses. She was a tinker, a traveler girl who had married a wealthy man. Her name was Agatha Sheehy….There are silences all around my mother’s story.” So begins The Nature of Water and Air, set on a patch of Irish coast where, amid a flurry of whispers, we meet Agatha’s only surviving daughter, Clodagh. Determined to secure her….Read More
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