Your Own Ones: A Novel

In Your Own Ones, Sile Posts poetic, storytelling voice, courage to write about big issues, great heart, and real personal vision [Frank Howard Mosher], shape this lyrical, visionary novel of one womans transcendental journey back to the old country, now lost in the unsustainable ways of the new. For wild salmon conservationist, Aine OConnor, the journey of the wild salmon charts the route of her own journey backto the rivers of her birth on Celtic Dingle Peninsulato continue a thousand year family tradition of protecting the land and sea. When the economic tide suddenly turns in Ireland, Aine launches a Celtic Roots Campaigna traditional & local foods initiativethrough which she re-casts the Joycean nightmare of Irish history into a sustainable dream for the countrys future. The preservationist passion that flows through Your Own Onesreminiscent of Barbara Kingsolver, with echoes of the warmth and humor of Maeve Binchy [Joyce Mandeville, Orange Prize nominee]will appeal to a wide range of readers, both caretakers of the land and of the heart. Come Away, (in the words of W. B. Yeats), to the waters & the wild of Your Own Onesan Irish State of Wonder.