Jean Melody Beattie and Irish Fairy and Folk

and Irish Fairy and Folk Tales

and resilience of the people who live in some of the most volatile

but always via the keen line between them that may be the sharpest weapon we have

Through the use of American idiom and free verse

Jean Melody Beattie and Irish Fairy and FolkBy: Madeleine Dunnigan Published by W. W. Norton, 2026 01 13 Set over one hot summer, a startlingly assured debut about the kinds of love that break us and make us whole. Seventeen year old Jean, a troubled Jewish boy caught in the countercultural swirl of 1970s London, arrives at Compton Manor, a rural alternative boarding school for boys with "problems." Dyslexic, antisocial, and prone to violent outbursts, Jean has never made friends easily and