This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, organizations, places, events, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 2017 by Kathleen Anne Kenney
All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, and distributed in Canada by Random House of Canada, a division of Penguin Random House Canada Limited, Toronto.
DOUBLEDAY is a registered trademark of Penguin Random House LLC. Nan A. Talese and the colophon are trademarks of Penguin Random House LLC.
Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to reprint previously published material:
Carcanet Press Limited: Excerpt from “Her Voice Could Not Be Softer” from Collected Poems by Austin Clarke. Reprinted by permission of Carcanet Press Limited.
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC, and Faber and Faber Limited: Excerpts from “Poem,” “The Wishing Tree,” “Bog Oak,” “Relic of Memory,” and “Sweeney in Flight” from Opened Ground: Selected Poems 1966–1996 by Seamus Heaney, copyright © 1998 by Seamus Heaney. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC, and Faber and Faber Limited.
Cover photograph: AWL Images/Masterfile
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
Names: Kenney, Kathleen Anne, author.
Title: Girl on The Leeside : a novel / Kathleen Anne Kenney.
Description: New York : Nan A. Talese, 2017
Identifiers: LCCN 2016034555 | ISBN 9780385542395 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780385542401 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Women poets—Fiction. | Americans—Ireland—Fiction. | Family secrets—Fiction. | Self-actualization (Psychology) in women—Fiction. | Ireland—Fiction. | Domestic fiction. | BISAC: FICTION/Coming of Age. | fiction/Family Life. |fiction/Literary. | GSAFD: Bildungsromans
Classification: LCC PS3611.E6667 G57 2017 | DDC 813/.6—DC23 LC record available at https://lccnloc.gov/2016034555
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