by Deborah Henry
Finally finished The Whipping Club by Deborah Henry. Unlike some other books I've read recently with promising starts, The Whipping Club actually finishes extraordinarily well.So why the four stars? I'm a writer so it's hard for me to enjoy a book in the way I used to before I studied the craft. The...
I must admit that I have been disappointed in my response to this book. Several of my GR friends who have similar reading likes to me have loved it, so I thought for sure I would just eat it up. that hasn't been the case though. I have found the characters and story very difficult to get into. As so...
I won this on Goodreads giveaways.A rather dark and disturbing tale about "Adrian" a boy born in Ireland in the 1950's to an unmarried interfaith couple. The mother decides to put her son up for adoption believing he is living in America with his adoptive parents finds out years later that he was pu...
This was a profound novel that centers around shame. It takes place in the 1960's in Ireland. Marian, a Catholic woman in her twenties, falls in love with a Jewish man, Ben, and becomes pregnant with their child. She struggles with what to do and eventually decides on giving away the child. This dec...
Synopsis:Marian McKeever and Ben Ellis are not typical young couple in 1957 Dublin, Ireland; she’s a Catholic teacher and he’s a Jewish journalist at the beginning of his career. They are very much in love with each other and plan to marry but their families object. Then Marian gets pregnant; she in...
Marian and Ben, young lovers in 1950s Ireland, are on the road to learning some of Life's more difficult lessons. Marian (Catholic) is pregnant, and about to tell Ben (Jewish)...but after a disastrous first meeting with his parents, she hies off to a Catholic "Mother & Baby" home to complete her pre...
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