Without My Cloak

by Kate O'Brien

Book Overview

When Anthony Considine creeps into Mellick town with a stolen horse in 1789, it sets the destiny of his family for decades to come. By the 1850s, through thrift and hard work, his son Honest John has... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0860687600
• ISBN13: 9780860687603
• Release Date: October 1986
• Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.0" x 7.8"

Customer Reviews

Hawthornden Prize winner

I recently found a list of the winners of the Hawthornden prize, which is awarded annually to an English writer "for the best work of imaginative literature." This book, by Kate O'Brien (1897-1974), won the prize for 1931. Since most of the Hawthornden prizewinners I have read (only 9 so far) have been good reading, I decided to read this. On balance it tells an interesting story and holds one's attention well. It is laid in Ireland of the 1870s and concerns an upper-class Irish Catholic family, the "proper" members of which are portrayed in a somewhat unfavorable light. The "rebel" members of the family get most of the attention in the book, as I suppose one would expect in a novel. I do not regret reading the book, and would read more by Kate O'Brien if I ran across such.