December Bride

‘perhaps the best novel about Northern Ireland life which has yet appeared’ Irish Times ‘a quiet, compassionate story’ New York Times Sarah Gomartin, the servant girl on Andrew Echlin’s farm on Strangford Lough in County Down, bears a child by one of Andrew’s sons. But which one? Her steadfast refusal over many years to ‘bend and contrive things’ by choosing one of the brothers reverberates through the puritan Presbyterian community, alienating clergy and neighbours, hastening her mother’s death