Sarah Gomartin, the servant girl on Andrew Echlin's farm,
bears a child to one of Andrew's sons. But which one?
Her steadfast refusal over many years to 'bend and contrive
things' by choosing one of the brothers reverberates through the puritan Ulster
community to which she belongs, alienating clergy and neighbours, hastening her
mother's death and casting a cold shadow on the lives of her children.
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