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Barracks

John McGahern, Georges-Michel Sarotte (1963)

SubgenreContemporary Romance
Age groupAdult 18+
Content ratingPG-13
Pages ()
SettingContemporary
Goodreads3.85/5 (809)

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ViolenceNot rated
Sexual contentModerate
LanguageNot rated

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Tropes

Royalty/Nobility

Themes

Family

Synopsis

Elizabeth Regan, after years of freedom - and loneliness - marries into the enclosed Irish village of her upbringing. The children are not her own, and her husband is straining against his job in the police force. Moving between tragedy and savage comedy, desperation and joy, this is a novel of haunting power.