Winter Song
A Novel
Published on 17. March 2015
313 pages
978-1-5040-0507-4 (ISBN)
Description
When her husband comes back from the dead, Mrs. Fury plans a voyage
Dennis Fury was too old to return to sea. Nearing seventy, his sailing days long behind him, he should have stayed home-but Britain was at war, and his family needed the money. When his ship was reported lost, his wife, the stalwart Mrs. Fury, staggered into St. Stephen's Hospice, prepared to die. Twelve months later, as she clings to life, a shipwrecked old man appears near the docks, feeble, sick, and too drunk to know his own name. He has crossed half the planet to return home, but Dennis Fury will find that there is no home waiting for him.
His return is enough to rouse Mrs. Fury from her deathbed. With her last burst of life, she wants to fulfill a dream she gave up on long ago and return with her husband to Ireland. The sea may stand in their way, but the Furys have never hesitated to cross an ocean.
Winter Song is the fourth book of James Hanley's acclaimed Furys Saga.
Dennis Fury was too old to return to sea. Nearing seventy, his sailing days long behind him, he should have stayed home-but Britain was at war, and his family needed the money. When his ship was reported lost, his wife, the stalwart Mrs. Fury, staggered into St. Stephen's Hospice, prepared to die. Twelve months later, as she clings to life, a shipwrecked old man appears near the docks, feeble, sick, and too drunk to know his own name. He has crossed half the planet to return home, but Dennis Fury will find that there is no home waiting for him.
His return is enough to rouse Mrs. Fury from her deathbed. With her last burst of life, she wants to fulfill a dream she gave up on long ago and return with her husband to Ireland. The sea may stand in their way, but the Furys have never hesitated to cross an ocean.
Winter Song is the fourth book of James Hanley's acclaimed Furys Saga.
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Person
James Hanley (1897-1985) was born in Liverpool, England, to an Irish Catholic family.He spent time in the merchant navy and served with the Canadian Infantry during World War I. From 1930 to 1981 Hanley published forty-eight books, including the novels
Boy,
The Furys,
The Ocean,
Another World, and
Hollow Sea. He penned plays for radio, television, and theater and published a work of nonfiction,
Grey Children, on the plight of coal miners. Hanley died in London but was buried in Wales, the setting for many of his works.
Content
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4
- Chapter 5
- Chapter 6
- Chapter 7
- Chapter 8
- Chapter 9
- Chapter 10
- Preview: An End and a Beginning
- About the Author
- Copyright Page
