The Dead Lake
Andrew Bromfield and Hamid Ismailov
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The Empty Family: Stories
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The Heart's Invisible Furies
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Cyril Avery is not a real Avery or at least that’s what his adoptive parents tell him. And he...
The Well of Ice
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Mid-December in Glendara and solicitor Benedicta 'Ben' O'Keeffe is working flat-out on the usual...
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Read our exclusive author interview "Luminous and moving. A story that asks who you can love...
We follow Debbie as she embarks on her first taste of adulthood. She’s eighteen and starting university. She lives in a little village on a dairy farm that her family owns and has no idea how it works being in the city most of the time. From the start of this book she is quite naive and you can tell that she’s not really had to step foot out of the comfort of the village she grew up in.
When she finally makes it into Dublin and to her new university she bumps into a girl named Xanthe who she makes friends with and spends most of her time with when she’s not at home or in class.
The book explores the mental health of many of the characters and does it very delicately, without judgement.
I couldn’t put it down and read it in a couple of hours. It was such a pleasant book. And I loved how the chapters were so short and the characters were just so loveable!
Thank you to Louise Nealon and Readers First for allowing me to read this wonderful book for free!
Leanne Crabtree (480 KP) rated Before Jamaica Lane in Books
Sep 3, 2019
I was really enjoying this up until the 65-70% mark before it all went to hell. Yeah, they have to have something that tears them apart or it would be a boring book, but at the same time it annoys the heck out of me. Things were going so well.
I had tears silently pouring from my eyes for a good ten minutes as I read their falling out and the obvious pain they were both in but I really wanted to smack Nate in the face a few times.
Never the less, they worked things out in the end--obviously!--and end up another great couple in this amazing series. I can't wait to read the rest of the series.
Awix (3310 KP) rated Educating Rita (1983) in Movies
May 18, 2020
Very well written and extremely well-played, the heart of the film is the relationship between the two of them and how it slowly changes over time: not really a romance or a friendship, but something still powerful and very affecting. As well as the shifting dynamic between them, the film is also about many other things: snobbery, both standard and reversed; class; the purpose of education; what it means to be a teacher, and much more. The origins of the piece as a two-handed stage play are fairly obvious, and funding issues mean it is set (distractingly) somewhere in the little-known Liverpool-Oxbridge-Dublin region, but the story and performances are strong enough for these not to be serious issues. A very fine film.
The Woman on the Bridge
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Dublin. The 1920s. As war tears Ireland apart, two young people are caught up in events that will...
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