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The Glass Fern
by Mary McCarthy
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 1st September, 2007
ISBN: 978-1-906018-19-1
Price: €15
The Glass Fern is a sweeping historical drama told against a backdrop of love lost and love found and one girl’s heroic efforts to survive. While staying at the sumer house of the Howard family in the West of Ireland, Sara Deering rescues a fellow house guest from drowning. On that day Sara’s life changes forever. Through unfolding circumstances she is drawn ever more into the Howard family and its curse, and forced into a journey that takes her from her home in Dublin to the south of India.
This extends over a period of several years and ends in the refugee camps in Calcutta during the east/West Pakistan war. On her return to Dublin she is again inescapably embroiled in the life of the Howard family until its final tragedy eventually releases her.
About the author
Mary McCarthy was founder and associate editor of the literary magazine Imagine, in which several of her short stories were published. She has also published The Long Night, a collection of her poetry. She lives in West Waterford with her dog Penny.
