The Story of Lucy Gault
Shortlisted for the 2002 Booker Prize.
Shortlisted for the 2002 Booker Prize.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780670031542 (0670031542)
Publish date: September 1st 2002
Publisher: Viking Adult
Pages no: 288
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
Historical Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
Irish Literature,
Contemporary,
Ireland,
Modern
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Loved his short story 'An idyll in winter'.
This book is depressing! It backs the optimist in me into a tight corner, shakes it's finger at me and states "sometimes broken things cannot be fixed".To that, I cross my arms on my chest, stand tall and refuse to believe it.
This book has a wonderful cover and blurb which instantly drew me to it, The opening chapters are quite chilling and gripping and you are really drawn in to the story, but by 70 pages the story seems to slow dowm in pace and for me the plot was not believable and I found by the end of the book there...
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