Whitethorn Woods

London: Orion Books. Good. 2006. Reprint; First Printing. Paperback. Trade PB . Some reading and cover creases, some shelf and edge wear, slightly cocked and sunned spine, small ink initial to front endpaper, some foxing to endpapers and edges of reading block. ; First printing of Orion trade paperback edition with full number line, 2006. Good reading copy. Cover artwork by Sarah Perkins. Heavy book and priced accordingly. ; 352 pages; Everything is changing in Rossmore. No longer a sleepy Irish town, nowadays it's a prosperous place, so busy that even a bypass is being proposed. But the people of Rosmore are divided, particularly as the proposed route will go through the Whitethorn Woods and the well dedicated to St Ann - a well thought by some to have near spiritual healing properties, and by others dismissed as superstition. No one is more concerned than the local curate, Father Brian Flynn, who has no idea which faction to support. Surely Neddy Nolan's family should take the compensation being offered for their land? But wasn't Neddy's mother given a cure at the well many years ago? And what about the childless London woman who came to Whitethorn Woods begging the saint for help, with most unexpected consequences? .