A Year In The Province

A Year In The Province

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image_caption = First edition cover
author = Christopher Marsh
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country = United Kingdom
language = English
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publisher = Beautiful Books
release_date = 2008
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media_type = Print
pages = 352
isbn = ISBN 978-1-905636-23-5
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A Year In The Province is a comic novel by Christopher Marsh. The book tells the story of Jesus Sanchez Ventura, who persuades his wife Begona and his three daughters to leave Andalusia for Belfast. [cite book | author=Marsh, Christopher | title=A Year In The Province | publisher=Beautiful Books|year=2008|id=ISBN 978-1-905636-23-5] The book was well-received by critics, with the BBC's Ian Sansom comparing Marsh to Flann O'Brien.cite web|url=http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,2282153,00.html|title=Novel of life after the Troubles is cult hit|publisher=Guardian|date=May 25, 2008|accessdate=2008-06-20]

The author

Christopher Marsh read history at Cambridge. He has since worked as an academic, publishing numerous historical titles, and since 1998 has been Reader in History at Queen's University, Belfast.

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