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02434aam a2200301Ii 4500 001 B7ACE982E39F11EB9B53DC062EECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210713010105 008 210413t20212021ie 000 f eng d 035 $a (OCoLC)1245967884 040 $a GO9 $b eng $e rda $c GO9 $d OCLCO $d DAD $d SILO 043 $a e-ie--- 100 1 $a Grainger, Jean, $e author. 245 10 $a The west's awake / $c Jean Grainger. 264 1 $a [Ireland] : $b Jean Grainger, $c [2021] 300 $a 259 pages ; $c 23 cm. 490 1 $a The Queenstown series ; $v #2. 520 $a Sixteen-year-old Harp Devereaux is growing up in a country in turmoil. Her mother Rose is struggling to navigate single parenthood, run the Cliff House, and stay out of the way of the authorities.Harps uncle, Ralph Devereaux, has only one thing on his mind.The port of Queenstown bustles with activity as people traverse the Atlantic either in search of new lives on foreign shores or returning to old familiar ones in Ireland. The Cliff House is fast gaining a reputation as a wonderful place to stay, and the business is going from strength to strength. Rose and Harp have turned their fortunes around and for the first time they are prosperous and independent. But all is not well. Civil and military unrest across the country in the wake of the Easter Rising is threatening to bubble over, and everyone is on edge. The British soldiers are making their presence felt in unpleasant ways, and the return of Ralph Devereaux to what he sees as his ancestral home is poses a serious threat.Just as they are managing the situation, a series of unforeseen events places both Harp and her mother in grave peril. Ralph suddenly holds all the power and is not afraid to wield it. They desperately need help, and theres only one place they can go to get it.From a tense Queenstown to the vibrant Irish community in Boston, from wartime Liverpool, to the streets of Dublin seething with revolution, The Wests Awake continues the spellbinding Queenstown Story. 610 20 $a Titanic (Steamship) $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Manners and customs $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Irish fiction. 650 0 $a Families $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Cobh (Ireland) $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Ireland $v Fiction. 800 1 $a Grainger, Jean. $t Queenstown series ; $v bk. 1. 941 $a 1 952 $l HRPE845 $d 20210713010538.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=B7ACE982E39F11EB9B53DC062EECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search