01870cam a2200349 i 4500 513111166 TxAuBib 20180823120000.0 170928t20172016||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2017932051 9780316243964 hardcover 0316243965 hardcover (OCoLC)968310780 YDX eng rda YDX BTCTA BDX AZZPT LIV TXN PCX JQR OCJ OI6 JAS IK2 MR0 OCLCF CZA IMT ILC ABJ IUK TxAuBib rda Kent, Hannah, 1985- The good people / Hannah Kent. First United States edition. New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2017. ©2016. 388 pages : illustration, map ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Originally published in Australia by Picador, Pan Macmillan Australia Pty Limited, 2016. Three women in nineteenth-century Ireland bond over a shared effort to rescue a child from a superstitious community that believes that his trauma-related inability to speak indicates that he is a changeling responsible for a series of misfortunes. N\f3ra, bereft after the death of her husband, finds herself alone and caring for her grandson Miche\e1l, who can neither speak nor walk. A handmaid, Mary, arrives to help N\f3ra just as rumors begin to spread that Miche\e1l is a changeling child who is bringing bad luck to the valley. N\f3ra and Mary enlist the help of Nance, an elderly wanderer who understands the magic of the old ways. 20180823. Changelings Fiction. Superstition Fiction. Ireland History 19th century Fiction. Historical fiction.