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Got this as a gift for my birthday from a BFF who could not believe I hadn't read it yet. It took me a while to get into the story because I am not all that familiar with the history of this time period and because it is so well written in the language & dialogue of the time period. After about a third of the way in though, I was hooked!

A huge copper beech tree sits in the school yard in Shancarrig and everyone has weitten their names in the tree through out the years. From ryan's Hotel to Barna Woods, where the gypsies came each year, from Nellie Dunn's sweet shop to FatherGunn's church, the tenor of life in this small Irish village is outwardly placid and uneventful. Nessa Ryan would say it was deadly dull. But, behind the calm exterior, serenity fades into unexpected drama. Maddy Ross has a secret love; Eddie Barton a surprising friendship and the Darcys, the glamorous newcomers, find a curious partner in prro Marua Brennan. At the cottages,where the Dunnes live in poverty, the grand house of Leo Murphy, the Kellys near the school, Dr. Jim's on The Terrace...nothing is as it seems.

A little on the bland side. No juicy details that's for sure. The book centered around his homosexuality and the journey to openly admitting it.

i really liked that book. i love the way it shows how bella's life changes in a blink of an eye, she was attracted to the weird and the beautiful and haunted by the jealous and the cruel. i recommend it to everybody(: