Book description
Along the windswept coast of Ireland, a woman discovers the landscape of her own heart
When Annie Crowe travels from Seattle to a small Irish village to promote a new copper mine, her public relations career is hanging in the balance. Struggling to overcome her troubled past and a failing…
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1 author picked The Crows of Beara as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This marvelous novel allowed me to travel to the remote southwest coast of Ireland, on the Beara peninsula.
The landscape is so evocatively and vividly described that I felt as if I were hiking along with the appealing protagonist, Annie Crowe. Like me, Annie turns to walking and nature when she is depressed or needs thinking time, and boy does Annie have demons to battle! She’s a great character - both tough and fragile, a recovering alcoholic.
On a job assignment as a public relations expert in support of a copper mine, she finds herself thrust into controversy with the…
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