Home Rule

Literature & Fiction

Clare Boylan

Contemporary

Penguin??Books

For fourteen-year old Nan and her younger sister Mary, the trials of convent life blend uneasily with their innocent yet peculiar home life, where the maid regales them with tales of a lurid past. But harsh reality is looming, a reality that in 1920s Dublin, is very shocking - and very adult. By the author of ROOM FOR A SINGLE LADY.

Holy pictures: A novel

Literary

Summit Books

HOME RULE.

Hamish Hamiltin

Emma Brown

<p>When Charlotte Bronte died in 1855, she left behind the beginnings of a new novel - twenty pages of a work in progress called Emma. Now, almost 150 years later, Clare Boylan has returned to this most intriguing of fragments, and turned them into an astonishing story of mystery, atmosphere and page-turning suspense. When Conway Fitzgibbon arrives at Fuchsia Lodge with his daughter Matilda, the headmistress Miss Wilcox couldn't be more delighted. The ladies' school is limited in numbers and eager for new pupils, particularly ones so finely dressed, and boasting a father who is 'quite the gentleman'. But as Christmas approaches, and Miss Wilcox inquires about arrangements for the holidays, she is in for a shock. Conway Fitzgibbon, like the address he left behind, does not exist. So who is Matilda? With Miss Wilcox unable to extract any information out of the girl, it falls to a local lawyer, Mr Ellin, and a young widow, Isabel Chalfont, to unravel the truth. What they discover is a tale that travels the highs and lows of nineteenth-century England, an investigation that begins as curiosity and ends up changing all their lives forever ...</p>

EMMA BROWN

Charlotte, Bronte

Little,Brown & Co

Dick and Eunice have been married for 50 years. Eunice believes that they have achieved the point of real love but then Dick takes a terrifying plunge into insanity and enters a world of imaginary enemies, fantastic opportunities and sexual rivals.

Chroniclers

Genre Fiction

Little,Brown

Ladies' Night At Finbar's Hotel

Emma Donoghue

maeve-binchy

Éilís Ní Dhuibhne

deirdre-purcell

Anne Haverty

Kate O'Riordan

Picador

Ladies' Night at Finbar's Hotel

Picador; Macmillan

Ladie's Night at Finbar's Hotel

That Bad Woman

ABACUS +

To Eugene Rafferty, girls are like money - they have to be saved. Despite living in 1950s Dublin, his three daughters, Bridie, Kitty and Rose, seem doomed to a Victorian childhood. However, as fortunes decline the Rafferty's are forced to take in lodgers and these independent but eccentric outsiders introduce the girls to new experiences - sex and superstition, of spite, of true love and tragedy. For in a world caught between the aftershock of the war and the transforming liberalism of the 1960s there are two states of womanhood: single, and caught up in the comic and desperate search for a suitable husband, or married and enduring the claustrophobia of suburban life. Evoking the magic of childhood and adolescence with rare subtlety, wit and warmth, ROOM FOR A SINGLE LADY is both delightfully comic and genuinely moving.

Room for a Single Lady

Little,Brown & Company

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