The bird woman

Description:

Ellen McKinnon's clairvoyant experiences damage her mental and physical health. She must face and assimilate an unwanted but unavoidable family secret, experiencing a revelation that turns her life around in this insightful look at the rift between mysticism and rationalism.

subjects: Fiction,  Terminally ill parents,  Women healers,  Parent and adult child,  Clairvoyants,  Mothers and daughters,  Presbyterian women,  Literature,  Social conditions,  Ireland, fiction,  Marriage, fiction,  Fiction, psychological

Places: Ireland,  Northern Ireland