Acclaimed Irish novelist Nuala O\'Connor \'s bold reimagining of the life of James Joyce\'s wife, muse, and the model for Molly Bloom in Ulysses is a "lively and loving paean to the indomitable Nora Barnacle" (Edna O\'Brien).
She enjoys the liveliness of her adopted city and on June 16--Bloomsday--her life is changed when she meets Dubliner Ja.
Nora Joseph Barnacle is a twenty-year-old from Galway working as a maid at Finn\'s Hotel.
Dublin, 1904.
Acclaimed Irish novelist Nuala O\'Connor \'s bold reimagining of the life of James Joyce\'s wife, muse, and the model for Molly Bloom in Ulysses is a "lively and loving paean to the indomitable Nora Barnacle" (Edna O\'Brien)