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Hood - A Novel Joe Mathieu Epics are no friend ofA tale of grief and lust, frustration and hilarity, death and family. Penelope OGrady and Cara Wall are risking disaster when, like teenagers in any intolerant time and placehere, a Dublin convent school in the late 1970sthey fall in love. Yet Cara, the free spirit, and Pen, the stoic, craft a bond so strong it seems as though nothing could sever it: not the bickering, not the secrets, not even Caras infidelities. But thirteen years on, a car crash