The Irish House
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Noreen left Ireland to attend the top ballet school in Toronto at the age of 16. Her painful experience at the school causes her to develop dark feelings she has never felt before. She becomes a threat to herself. Now 21, she calls a number she hasn't spoken to since she was a child. Her godmother. She travels back to Ireland, and has to face the family she swore to never look back on years ago. Back in a place in a strange place she calls home, with people who used to be so close to her heart. Will she survive herself, and find the light she lost?
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