{"product_id":"in-praise-of-the-bees-paperback","title":"In Praise of the Bees - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKristin Gleeson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIreland 590 A.D.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA woman is found by a track, nearly dead from appalling wounds and remembers nothing. Her terror and her injuries are so great that she is given sanctuary in Mother Gobnait's unusual community of nuns, while all around her a war is being waged in which she is a pawn. The women name her Aine.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDisturbing fragments of  ine's memory begin to surface, and in desperation she asks to remain in the safety of the community, but is it really safe for her anywhere?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIt is only after events take another terrible turn that  ine is forced to discover who she really is and make life-changing choices - but will they prove to be her undoing?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA literary novel inspired by real women - complex female characters who strain against the cruel chains and crippling prejudices of a society where no woman has power. Except, perhaps, one...\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eKristin Gleeson has performed with admirable deftness the difficult trick of sweeping the reader back in time to the distant emotional and physical landscapes of 6th century Ireland. The result is a highly readable and continuously rewarding novel that the reader does not want to end\u003c\/em\u003e--Tim Weed, author of \u003cem\u003eWill Poole's Island\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eI found in this well-told story, the first strokes of paint on the huge, mostly blank, canvas that is our image and perception of our Irish or Gaelic past - the canvas of our increasingly dispossessed native culture. I found myself drawn into a realm that felt oddly familiar and full of cultural touchstones of the indigenous Irish past, faint echoes of which still linger in parts of this island today.In Praise of the Bees is a good read\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003cem\u003eGu m faoi sc th is d dean Gobnait is Ab in t  - go mairir--\u003c\/em\u003ePeadar   Riada\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 310\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8 x 5.25 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 10, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52553225830707,"sku":"9780993156762","price":23.18,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/HXpVEEPoyV9780993156762.webp?v=1761108823","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/in-praise-of-the-bees-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}