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Eire 1984.After Shell's mother dies, her frantically spiritual dad descends into intoxicating mourning and Shell is left to take care of her younger cousin and brother. Her only discharge from the harshness of every day life comes from her future religious companionship with a trusting young priest, and most of all, her developing romance with childhood buddy, Declan, who's wonderful, elegant, and powerful. Nevertheless when Declan abruptly leaves Ireland to find his fortune in The Usa, Covering discovers herself pregnant and the middle of a scandal that rocks the little neighborhood by which she lives, with consequences over the entire nation. The lives of these immediately around her will never function as the same again.This is just a tale of loss and love, spiritual spirituality—it and perception will move the minds of any who study it.From the Hardcover version.