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|title=Academy Street
|author=Mary Costello
|publisher=Canongate Books
|date=October 2014
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|summary=A near-perfect novella about an Irish woman's early years and new life in New York City. Nominated for the Costa First Novel Award and shortlisted for Novel of the Year in the Irish Book Awards.
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It is 1944. Tess Lohan's mother has just died at age 40, of tuberculosis. Seven-year-old Tess is one of six children in a rural Irish family. They live at Easterfield, a centuries-old manor house. A teacher later tells Tess the history of her home: built in 1678, it was a famine hospital in the 1840s; there are numerous corpses buried on the land. He hints there may be many ghosts on the property, but the only one that haunts Tess is her dead mother. 'Memories and traces of her mother must linger all over the house – in rooms and halls and landings. The dent of her feet on a rug. On a cup, the mark of her hand.'
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