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|title=The Eyrie

|sort=Eyrie

|date=February 2007

|isbn=978-0297851417

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Before its conversion into high-class flats with paper-thin walls, The Eyrie was the home of a South Wales copper baron, built on the exploitation of worker labour in the nineteenth century. Ironic, then, that Dora Urquhart - Red Dora - should find herself living out her final days there. Dora is a fiery Scots radical, a veteran of the Spanish Civil War and every political struggle since, right up to the miners strike in 1984. Dora is in her nineties now, but as fiery, powerful and vital as ever. Eirlys is The Eyrie's mother hen. She knows all the gossip and is always ready with a welcome cup of tea and home-baked cake. Eirlys, an ex-social worker, is also a Welsh patriot and language campaigner with a history of agit prop almost matching Dora's. Newcomer Hannah is the child of a commune, on the run from a stifling marriage to a dull, middle-class man. In Hannah, Dora sees the ghost of Rosa, her daughter who died some years ago while the two were estranged.