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extraneous by Jane Urquhart is a complex novel that mixes romance, government and family all in to one flowing story. It follows the lives of many different characters, besides it is told through the memories of a woman named Esther. Esther attempts to correct through her great-grandmothers past, and her entire familys history. Away is a compelling novel that captures the readers attention in the first a couple of(prenominal) pages.      The beginning of the novel introduces the reader to Esther OMalley Robertson as the last of a family of innate women. She is sitting in her home, remembering a story that her grandmother told her a long time ago. Esther is the first character that the reader is introduced to, but we do not really understand who she is until the end of the story. Esthers main struggle is transaction with her home on Loughbreeze Beach being torn down, and trying to ascertain out the mysteries of her familys past.      Mar y is the next character that is introduced to the reader, and she is a very life-size part of the story. One day while Mary is at the edge a ashes washes up on the shore with many cabbages, kettles, and place of whiskey. She drags the body to the shore where she lies in the mans arms until he dies. This man was believed to go through been from an "other world" and this had a big effect on Mary. She move in love with this sailor, even though he is dead, and it casts a sort of spell on her. Mary is known to the rest of the village as "away" which means she is enchanted by this other world, the world of the sea. She felt up as though her spirit were not in her humanly body anymore, and did not even consider herself Mary anymore. The spirits of the lake had given her a new name, Moira, and that is what she preferred to call herself. The villagers had no hope for, except for drive Quinn.      As the priest on the island, Father Quinn feels he m ust pull in Mary back to reality, but he finds it nearly impossible. He turns to his friend, Brian, who ends up convincing Mary to marry him. They have one child, Liam, and as shortfall and depression hit the island they live on, they are given the opportunity of a lifetime.