If the bus hadn't broken down that August afternoon on the road between Dublin and Cork, Elizabeth Sullivan would never have met George Gallaher, a travelling actor of infinite charm and fatal weakness. She would not have been forced to marry, nor found herself trapped in an alien landscape.

Falling for a Dancer

Literature & Fiction

deirdre-purcell

Contemporary

Pan Books

Ladies' Night At Finbar's Hotel

Emma Donoghue

maeve-binchy

Clare Boylan

Éilís Ní Dhuibhne

Anne Haverty

Kate O'Riordan

Picador

Ladies' Night at Finbar's Hotel

Picador; Macmillan

A Place of Stones / Sky Duo

Falling for the Dancer / Love Like Hate Adore

Entertaining Ambrose

Entertaining Ambrose is the story of the lovable May who bears lifes burdens so lightly, tending always to others needs before her own. And now her husband, Clem, has left her, with no explanation and no forwarding address, only orders not to be contacted. What do you do when your husband mysteriously ups and leaves? Do you sit around, waiting? Or do you fight to get your life back?

Pan/Macmillan

In the cemetery set into the hills about Drumboola in Ireland, a figure squats over one of the graves, working with a hammer and chisel, hacking off a name engraved on one of the tombstones. The events which led to this scene began two decades before. The author also wrote "A Place of Stones".

That Childhood Country

Parenting & Relationships

Macmillan

Love Like Hate Adore

What happens when someone you know and trust is accused of rape? What if that person is your brother who was placed in your sole charge from the age of a few months and whom you love as though he were your son? In Love Like Hate Adore, Angela Devine tells how it happened to her. Before the pain dulls, "before the finer details blow away like dandelion clock".Deirdre Purcell's new novel is stunning in its power and honesty. Angela's story, revealing the intricacies of her relationship with her brother James, is one of warmth, sensitivity and courage, but mostly of overwhelming love. Interspersed with flashes of perfectly observed wit, it is the challenging tale of an extraordinary woman who thinks herself ordinary.

<p>'A compelling and entertaining read...' (Sunday Business Post)'Honest and unassuming ... compelling ... a warm and humorous reflection on 60 years well-lived' (The Irish Daily Mail)'[An] immensley enjoyable read' (Western People) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. When Deirdre Purcell turned sixty, she cheered. Never again would she have to fit into a size ten dress, and while her dream of crossing the US on a Harley remained, if it was never realised, well, she'd live. In Diamonds and Holes in My Shoes, for the first time, this much-loved story-teller takes stock of her years to date and reveals very personal memories and reflections. From her earliest days as a small child with a large imagination, trotting perilously close to the edge of the River Tolka near her home, her head buried in her library book, she weaves an engrossing tapestry of a resilient personal and professional life punctuated by astonishing and sudden changes. Recounted with characteristic frankness, humour and insight, Deirdre chronicles the years as an Abbey actress, the triumphs and failures as an acclaimed journalist who elicited memorable interviews from a host of famous personalities, the break-up of a marriage in an era when tolerance of single mothers was not as it is now - and her transition into the peculiar life of the novelist via the ghost-writing of Gay Byrne's autobiography. Illustrated with a treasure trove of photographs, Diamonds and Holes in My Shoes is the story behind the story-teller from a keen observer who has recorded a dramatically changing Ireland over the past sixty years.</p>

Diamonds and Holes in My Shoes

Biographies & Memoirs

Hachette Books Ireland

Arts & Literature

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