Categorie: Ireland
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In de Schaduw
Auteur: Liz Nugent Uitgeverij: Aw Bruna / Standaard Uitgeverij Jaar uitgave: 2023 Aantal pagina’s: 367 Coverdesign: Buro Blikgoed Originele titel: Lying in Wait (2018) Vertaling: Valérie Janssen ISBN: 978-9400515505 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…
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Foster
Author: Claire Keegan Publisher: Faber & Faber (Faber Books) Publishing Year: 2010 Pages: 90 Cover: design by Faber (Emma Cownie) ISBN: 978-0571379149 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…
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Small Things like these
Author: Claire Keegan Publisher: Faber & Faber (Faber Books) Publishing year: 2021 Pages: 116 Cover: Faber (Hunters in the Snow, Pieter Breugel the Elder, 1565) ISBN: 978-0571368709 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…
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Strange Sally Diamond
Author: Liz Nugent Publisher: Penguin Books Publishing year: 2023 Number of pages: 366 ISBN: 978-0241993576 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…
