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Mar 22, 20221 min read
958. Colm Toibin - Brooklyn
I found this very slight. An Irish girl, struggling to find work in her hometown, goes to New York at the instigation of her local...
Dec 22, 20181 min read
646. Elena Ferrante - The Story Of The Lost Child
The 4th and final novel of the sequence. I never normally read books out of sequence but P had this from the library and we have watched...
Nov 3, 20181 min read
636. Salley Vickers - The Librarian
One of Paddy’s library books; I have never heard of the author (although I think I may have read ‘The Cleaner of Chartres’), but this was...
Jun 9, 20181 min read
596. Sebastian Faulks - A Fool's Alphabet
This was quite a difficult book; I have read it before, but assume a long time ago. But as it progressed, I enjoyed it more and it is...
Jan 18, 20181 min read
567. Edna O'Brien - The Country Girls
Not sure that I have ever read any Edna O’Brien before, if so a long time ago. Although set in rural, agricultural Ireland in (I am...