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Alice McDermott

The Ninth Hour by Alice McDermott | Review

September 28, 2017

Review of The Ninth Hour by Alice Mcdermott - In the early 20th century a widowed young woman and her child fall under the care of nosy but well-meaning nuns.

The Ninth Hour by Alice McDermott Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Release Date: September 19, 2017 Length: 256 pages Buy on Amazon {A Bit of Backstory} Single Sentence Summary Annie, left widowed and pregnant, finds herself taken under the wing of a group of Catholic nuns, determined that Annie and her child will have lives…

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Filed Under: By Title, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction Tagged With: 1930's, 2017, Book Review, Catholic Church, Nuns, NYC, Single Mother

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