# The Past

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- Book: [The Past](https://www.bookquiver.com/neil-jordan/the-past) ([The Past.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/neil-jordan/the-past.md))
- Authors: [Neil Jordan](https://www.bookquiver.com/neil-jordan)
- Publisher: soft_skull
- ISBN: 978-15-9376-510-1
- Pages: 288
- Published: 2012-12-25
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

On June 1st, 1914, Una O’Shaughnessy sends a postcard home from a Cornish seaside town. Back in two weeks, she promises. But seven months later, she still has not returned to Ireland, and she sends...