St. Patrick's Bed

Ashland #3

by Terence M. Green

Terence M. Green's novels growing out of the history of his family in the last century, Shadow of Ashland and A Witness to Life, have won him much critical praise and a wide readership. Now, in St. Patrick's Bed, Green returns, at a point fifteen years later, to the story of Leo Nolan, who went to Ashland, Kentucky in search of his lost uncle, Jack Radey, and in finding him, also found a wife, Jeanne, and her young child, Adam.

Leo and Jeanne have been trying for a few years to have another child. And Adam, now a young man about to leave his teens, feels the need to trace and visit his true father, who abandoned his pregnant mother before he was born. Because he loves and wants to protect Adam, Leo decides that he had better visit the man first, and so he embarks on another trip into the past, from which he returns changed again.

Terence M. Green is a substantial novelist of exceptional talent. He is able to write about emotions with sensitivity but without sentimentality. As Charles de Lint says, "Green pens moments of such pristine clarity, so perfectly describing a mood or a detail, that the words seem to sing from the page."

Genres: Fantasy

224 pages, Paperback

First published October 19, 2001

About the author

Green received a BA in English in 1967 from the University of Toronto, an MA from University College, Dublin, and a BEd in 1973 from the University of Toronto. He is the author of 8 books (7 novels and a short story collection) and is a 2-time World Fantasy Award finalist and a 5-time Prix Aurora Award finalist. His work has been translated into French, Italian, Danish, Polish and Portuguese.

Green is a lecturer of Creative Writing at The University of Western Ontario. He is married to Merle Casci and is the father of three sons.

Reviews

[Brian Gaston]

I am a fan of the Ashland series. Each book is "charming".

[Angela]

If you’re going to read them…get all of them from your library. You won’t want to stop. Just a great story. Wish there were more in the series.

[Linda Godsoe Ewart]

Enjoyed the whole trilogy....each book is a complete and perfect little gem. Terence M Green is called a 'fantasy' writer.....and elements of these books, are fantasy in a sense.
All I can say is READ them. They are wonderful!