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The woman of the house

by Alice Taylor

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The Phelans have occupied the same home in the village of Kilmeen for generations, tending their land, surviving a feud with unscrupulous neighbors, forming part of the social backbone of their community. But as the farm is handed on to the younger generation in the early 1950s, their longtime home is threatened from within.

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