Terrible Beauty

"Northern Ireland in the early 1980s: British soldiers patrol the six counties, loyalist and republican paramilitary groups are locked in bloody conflict, and civilians are caught in the crossfire."--BOOK JACKET. "Bernadette Hanlon, a Belfast housewife, strives to keep herself and her children apart from the violence that surrounds them. But the world begins to close in when her husband is imprisoned for IRA activities and the British government plans to frame him for a shooting he had nothing to do with. Then her neighbor's 12-year-old daughter is killed by a plastic bullet fired by the British Army, and the authorities turn a blind eye. Threatened on all sides, Bernadette is drawn into the only thing that seems to offer hope: the clandestine world of the IRA, with its dreams of a United Ireland free of British rule and its network of support in America, which penetrates even the halls of Congress."--BOOK JACKET.