TY  - BOOK
AU  - Williams,Niall
TI  - Time of the Child
SN  - 9781639734207
AV  - PR6073.I43273 T56 2024
U1  - 823/.914 23/eng/20241107
PY  - 2024///
CY  - New York
PB  - Bloomsbury
KW  - Fathers and daughters
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Abandoned children
KW  - Man-woman relationships
KW  - Brothers
KW  - Villages
KW  - Country life
KW  - Ireland
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Domestic fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Historical fiction
N2  - "In December 1962, 12-year-old Jude Quinlan and his father take their cows to the Christmas fair in Faha, a small town where 'all commentators agreed: nothing happened here.' The town's reputation begins to change after Jude, waiting for his father to emerge from the pub, finds a baby at the back wall of the church. Jude brings the baby to the local physician, Jack Troy, whose grown daughter Ronnie names her Noelle. The Troys hide the baby to prevent her from being taken away and placed in an orphanage. Jack, regretting that he disapproved of Ronnie's former suitor, Noel Crowe, who now lives in America, concocts a far-fetched plan to lure Noel back to Ireland, so he and Ronnie can get married and take the child to the U.S. to raise"--
ER  -