Tag Archives: Ireland

The Girl on the Cliff by Lucinda Riley

Posted on January 20, 2012 by

I read this book just after Christmas but it’s been one of those reviews that I’ve found difficult to write. Not because I didn’t enjoy the book, but because it was a complex story and hard to summarise or to … Continue reading →

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On Canaan’s Side by Sebastian Barry

Posted on September 3, 2011 by

“Bill is gone. What is the sound of an eighty-nine-year-old heart breaking? It might not be much more than silence, and certainly a small slight sound.” When this year’s Man Booker Prize longlist was announced at the end of July, … Continue reading →

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Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín

Posted on July 17, 2011 by

Brooklyn tells the story of Eilis Lacey, a young woman who lives in a small town in Ireland with her mother and sister. It’s the 1950s, only a few years after the end of World War II and it’s not … Continue reading →

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Ghost Light by Joseph O’Connor

Posted on June 13, 2011 by

Ghost Light tells the story of Molly Allgood, a real-life Irish actress who performed under the stage name Maire O’Neill and was engaged to the playwright John Millington Synge at the time of his death from cancer in 1909. Molly … Continue reading →

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The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry

Posted on January 1, 2011 by

It’s 2011, the start of a new reading year, but I still have a few reviews to post of books that I read in December 2010.  This is the first, and I’ll be posting another two later in the week … Continue reading →

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Review: Miss Hargreaves by Frank Baker

Posted on July 10, 2010 by

When I started to notice these Bloomsbury Group books appearing on other blogs, I knew I wouldn’t be able to resist reading them too. Not just because the covers are so pretty, but also because the stories all sound so … Continue reading →

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