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WB Yeats Love Poems to Maud Gonne
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A Life Before
Publishing 2025:
My next novel, A Life Before, is the coming-of-age story of the great Irish activist, Maud Gonne, and the poet she inspired, WB Yeats. As told by Rosy Cross, ’the oldest woman in Ireland.’
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