The Elephant of Belfast
A Novel
ISBN-13: 9781640095113
Contributor(s): S. Kirk Walsh
Subject: Historical Fiction
Publisher Imprint: Counterpoint
Publication Date: 07-04-2022
Format: Paperback
Availability: Out of stock
£15.99
About the book
Belfast, October 1940. Twenty-year-old zookeeper Hettie Quin arrives at the city docks in time to meet her new charge: an orphaned three-year-old Indian elephant named Violet. As Violet adjusts to her new solitary life in captivity and Hettie mourns the recent loss of her sister, a world war rages, threatening a city already reeling from escalating tensions between British Loyalists and those fighting for a free and unified Ireland. The Elephant of Belfast is a complicated and beguiling portrait of hope and resilience - and how love can sustain us during the darkest moments of our lives