Title:
Memoir
Author:
John McGahern
Genre:
Biography, Irish
Release Date:
2006
Pages:
272
Meeting: 14th December 2006
Sometimes bookclub books are chosen carefully; sometimes they occur by default. Memoir is one of the serendipitous accidents. A last minute trip to the bookshop before the last bookclub resulted me being unable to get seven copies of my book of choice. At the last minute, I saw a stack of Memoir and, as it’s been on my Must Read list since
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Title:
The Story of Lucy Gault
Author:
William Trevor
Genre:
Cork (Ireland)
Release Date:
2010
Pages:
227
Summer, 1921. Eight-year-old Lucy Gault clings to the glens and woods above Lahardane - the home her family is being forced to abandon. She knows the Gaults, as Protestants, are no longer welcome in Ireland and that danger threatens. She is headstrong and decides that somehow she must force her parents into staying. But the path she chooses ends
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Title:
Never No More
Author:
Maura Laverty
Genre:
Classics
Publisher:
Virago Press
Release Date:
1985-01-01
Pages:
308
When I was a little one, with a voracious appetite for books and cooking, one of the books that I devoured was my Nana’s well-used copy of Full and Plenty by Maura Laverty. The distinctive blue and yellow covers contained a treasury of old Irish recipes but the icing on the cake for me were the stories with which Laverty started each chapter
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