Categorie: Ireland
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In de Schaduw
https://www.awbruna.nl/boek/thrillers/liz-nugent/in-de-schaduw/ Review: (Dutch) Het is 1980, Ierland. Annie Doyle verdwijnt! De familie Doyle blijft verweesd achter. Ook al hebben ze een problematische relatie met Annie wegens haar levensstijl, drugsverslaving en prostitutie, het blijft toch nog hun dochter, Karens zus… de politie volgt de zaak dan ook niet echt goed op. De enige rechercheur die denkt…
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Foster
https://www.faber.co.uk/product/9780571379149-foster/ Review: A father drops his child off at some relatives, the Kinsellas. The girl is suddenly thrown into a bath of warmth and love, such as she has never truly known at home (with all the siblings and a new one arriving real soon at home). She doesn’t know what to feel at first…
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Small Things like these
https://www.faber.co.uk/product/9780571368709-small-things-like-these/ Review: 1985, in a small Irish town where everybody knows everybody. Bill Furlong is a coal and timber merchant and it’s a very busy period as Christmas is approaching. At home he has a wife and five daughters waiting for him, happily married and coming by with what Bill brings in. As he makes…
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Strange Sally Diamond
Review: Thomas Diamond had said to Sally: “Put me out with the bins. When I die, put me out with the bins. I’ll be dead, so I won’t know the difference.” So that’s what Sally Diamond did. She put him with the trash and tried to incinerate her (adoptive) father. Little did she know that…
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