That They May Face the Rising Sun

Drama unfolds during a year in the lives of a group of characters who have come home to Ireland in search of a different life from that in London. By the close, we feel we have been introduced to a microcosm of Everywhere.

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Joe and Kate Ruttledge, have come to rural Ireland from London in search of a different life. In passages of beauty and truth, the drama of a year in their lives and those of the memorable characters that move about them unfolds through action, the rituals of work, religious observances and play. By the novel's close we feel that we have been introduced, with deceptive simplicity, to a complete representation of existence - an enclosed world has been transformed into an Everywhere.