Mary Lavelle

Name: Mary Lavelle
Author: Kate O'Brien

by Kate O'Brien

Novel of Irish governess in Spain discovering independence and love

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Kate O'Brien

O'Brien was a distinguished Irish novelist whose explorations of Catholic moral constraint and female desire were as formally accomplished as they were spiritually serious. Mary Lavelle and The Land of Spices are her finest works.

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