Showing posts with label family. Show all posts
Showing posts with label family. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 11, 2022

The Green Road by Ann Enright

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  Ann Enright’s The Green Road, eventually, is a family saga, but its characters cover a large part of the globe before joining forces in th...
Monday, December 20, 2021

Light of Evening by Edna O’Brien

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  The Light of Evening by Edna O ’ Brien is a deceptively complex book. It deals with relationships between two women, Dilly and Eleanora, w...
Monday, March 15, 2021

The Green Road by Ann Enright

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  Ann Enright’s The Green Road, eventually, is a family saga, but its characters cover a large part of the globe before joining forces in th...
Wednesday, February 24, 2021

Light of Evening by Edna O’Brien

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The Light of Evening by Edna O ’ Brien is a deceptively complex book. It deals with relationships between two women, Dilly and Eleanora, who...
Saturday, January 23, 2021

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

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The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold is a novel about loss. It deals with the idea that bereavement changes the living, opens a hole in survivor...
Wednesday, August 19, 2020

The Children's Book by AS Byatt

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The Children's Book by AS Byatt is a vast, almost rambling novel about several families and multiple lives . It is the  kind of novel wh...
Saturday, July 25, 2020

A Tale Of Love And Darkness by Amos Oz

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In A Tale Of Love And Darkness Amos Oz writes an autobiography of his early years. Though written from a much later perspective, this memoi...
Sunday, July 19, 2020

4-3-2-1 by Paul Auster

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4-3-2-1 in not one book. It is four. And they are in order, 4-3-2-1. Its title, incidentally, could not be 1-2-3-4 for reasons the reader w...
Monday, June 29, 2020

Family Album by Penelope Lively.

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One comment that is often made about many writers - usually women - is that all too often the material does not venture beyond the garden g...
Wednesday, June 17, 2020

Grass For My Feet by J. Vijayatunga

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Urala is a village near Galle in the south of Sri Lanka. Its existence might be fiction, but equally it might have been, or be reality. Eve...

Dinner At The Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler

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“How pointless real life was! In novels, events led up to something,” thought Ezra, as he scanned his mother’s diary.   “What would you say...
Tuesday, January 14, 2014

A Change of Climate by Hilary Mantel

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In A Change Of Climate Hilary Mantel presents what is essentially a family saga, but in settings that add extra dimensions to the expected d...
Saturday, March 31, 2012

Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively

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Time is undoubtedly linear, but our perception of it is not. And for Claudia Hampton, the principal character of Penelope Lively’s novel, Mo...
Sunday, March 18, 2012

Fools Of Fortune by William Trevor

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Generally, genre thrillers are books without thrills. Someone gets killed. Turn the page and it happens again to someone else. There’s a cha...
Saturday, January 14, 2012

Characters mutually fragmented - Trespasses by Paul Bailey

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Trespasses by Paul Bailey presents the reader with an early challenge. The principal character, Ralph Hicks, or Ralphie to his mother, has s...
Monday, December 19, 2011

A Northern Ireland Childhood - Patrick Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle

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Patrick Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle is an unusual, highly original account of life in a Northern Ireland Catholic household. Written from...
Wednesday, October 19, 2011

A Northern Ireland family - Reading In The Dark by Seamus Deane

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Reading In The Dark is a first person account of an extraordinary childhood. On the surface, the family seems to be stable enough. They are ...