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Sheelagh Kelly

Auteur de A Long Way from Heaven

20 oeuvres 208 utilisateurs 3 critiques

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Œuvres de Sheelagh Kelly

A Long Way from Heaven (1985) 27 exemplaires
Jorvik (1992) 24 exemplaires
Erin's Child (1987) 19 exemplaires
Dickie (1990) 18 exemplaires
A Complicated Woman (1998) 17 exemplaires
The Keepsake (2006) 15 exemplaires
A Sense of Duty (1999) 14 exemplaires
For My Brother's Sins (1986) 13 exemplaires
A Different Kind of Love (2003) 13 exemplaires
Family of the Empire (2000) 9 exemplaires
My Father, My Son (1990) 8 exemplaires
Shoddy Prince (1995) 8 exemplaires
Secrets of Our Hearts (2007) 8 exemplaires
An Unsuitable Mother (2008) 7 exemplaires

Étiqueté

Partage des connaissances

Date de naissance
1948
Sexe
female
Pays (pour la carte)
United Kingdom
Lieu de naissance
York, Yorkshire, England, UK

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Critiques

I think this is definitely going to be a love it or hate it book simply based on comfortableness with the culture. Growing up in an Irish home and inundated with its literature, music, movies and history for as long as I can remember for me this was familiar. I can still hear my father’s Irish brogue that would break out when he’d sing or read certain things with similar prose so I loved Sheelagh Kelly’s writing, phraseology, and word choices.

I felt the author did a great job really immersing you in 1800s Ireland along with the horror of the potato crop failures that nearly destroyed a nation. I loved the descriptions and hated them at the same time because the vividness of the sorrow and devastation created here reminded me of what my family went through; the permanent scar it left upon our culture.

I felt the struggle of what the people had to endure and how much harder it could get if they left seeking survival was accurately captured here. It’s not an easy book to get through when you have a personal connection to one of the worst acts visited upon humanity but this book handled that difficult time with grace and respect to those who went through it and its survivors.

I’m looking forward to the next book to find out where she’ll be taking the family saga next.
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ttsheehan | Jun 5, 2017 |
I read this quickly as sadly it seemed to cover topics already used in Ms Kelly's other books. As ever, I enjoyed the descriptions of York though.
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floriferous | Aug 29, 2012 |
 
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Statistiques

Œuvres
20
Membres
208
Popularité
#106,482
Évaluation
3.0
Critiques
3
ISBN
101
Langues
2

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