Description
| Product ID: | 9781529112962 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Life Sentences |
| Subtitle: | the unforgettable Irish bestseller |
| Authors: | Author: Billy O'Callaghan |
| Page Count: | 240 |
| Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Saga fiction (family / generational sagas), Historical fiction, Sagas, Historical fiction, Ireland |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating *THE #3 IRISH BESTSELLER*'Momentous and epic' BERNARD MACLAVERTY'Superb and moving' JOHN BANVILLE'A lovely, piercing book' SEBASTIAN BARRYThree generations. More than a century of famine, war, violence and love. At sixteen Nancy, the only member of her family to survive the Great Famine, leaves her small island for the mainland. Finding work in a grand house on the edge of Cork City, she feels irrepressibly drawn to the charismatic gardener Michael Egan, sparking a love affair that soon throws her into a fight for her life. In 1920, Nancy's son Jer has lived through battles of his own as a soldier in the Great War. Now drunk in a jail cell, he struggles to piece together where he has come from, and who he wants to be. And in the early 1980s, Jer's youngest child Nellie is nearing the end of her life in a council house, moments away from her childhood home; remembering the night when she and her family stole back something that was rightfully theirs, she imagines what lies in store for those who will survive her. 'Brilliantly immerses us in its respective time periods' SUNDAY TIMES *THE #3 IRISH BESTSELLER* *A SINÉAD & RICK ''MUST READS'' PICK* An unforgettable tale of love, abandonment, hunger and redemption, from a rising star of Irish fiction ''O''Callaghan is one of our finest writers . . . and this is his best work yet'' JOHN BANVILLE ***** At just sixteen, Nancy leaves the small island of Cape Clear for the mainland, the only member of her family to survive the effects of the Great Famine. Finding work in a grand house on the edge of Cork City, she is irrepressibly drawn to the charismatic gardener Michael Egan, sparking a love affair and a devastating chain of events that continues to unfold over three generations. Spanning more than a century, Life Sentences is the unforgettable journey of a family hungry for redemption, and determined against all odds to be free. This sweeping story of one family''s fight for survival goes on making the heart lurch long after the final page, and confirms Billy O''Callaghan as one of the finest living Irish writers. ***** ''A lovely, piercing book'' SEBASTIAN BARRY ''Stops you in your tracks so you can savour its utter beauty'' ANNE GRIFFIN ''Momentous and epic storytelling'' BERNARD MACLAVERTY ''So good and true it feels almost magical'' SADIE JONES ''Eminently readable . . . My book of the year so far'' RYAN TUBRIDY |
| Imprint Name: | Vintage |
| Publisher Name: | Vintage Publishing |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2022-01-13 |
