Luke O'Brien, professeur de lettres et specialiste de Joyce auquel il reve depuis des annees de consacrer un livre, est en pleine crise existentielle, en proie à l'angoisse de la page blanche et aux tourments provoques par une vie amoureuse compliquee. Il a quitte Dublin pour s'installer dans une vi...

Tess a sept ans lorsque sa mère meurt de la tuberculose. Nous sommes en Irlande dans les années 40, dans le vaste domaine familial d'Easterfield. Avec cette perte, se creuse en l'enfant silencieuse une solitude fondamentale.Tess a vingt ans lorsque des études d'infirmière la poussent à Dublin ; peu ...

AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 BOOK AT BEDTIME WINNER OF THE IRISH BOOK AWARDS NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2014 SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD 2014 She stood on the edge of the grass. She hovered between worlds, deciphering the ground, tracing in mid-air the hall, the dining-room, the stairs. S...

When model Merise Merrick is asked to star in a campaign for the Yarraside Football Club, she couldn't be less interested. As far as she's concerned, football players are all overpaid jocks with zero intelligence. AFL captain Cal McCoy is completely dedicated to the game. With a premiership firmly i...

An elderly schoolteacher recalls the single act of youthful passion that changed her life forever. A young gardener has an unsettling encounter with a suburban housewife. A teenage girl strikes up an unlikely friendship with a lonely bachelor. In these twelve haunting stories award-winning writer...

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