Summary
From the bestselling author of Star of the Sea and Shadowplay, comes a powerful, moving adventure of raw fate and betrayed love.
Inspector Martin Aitken’s life is a mess. He’s divorced, his career’s in chaos, and the last thing he needs this Christmas Eve is a strange woman collapsed on a Dublin street. Ellen Donnelly is a woman on a mission, coming to Ireland to find her mother and escape her marriage. Dr Milton Amery, a New York plastic surgeon, is her unfaithful h…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099286530 |
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| ISBN-10: | 009928653X |
| Author: | Joseph O'Connor |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 480 |
| Release Date: | 1 June 2001 |
| Weight: | 332g |
| Dimensions: | 32mm x 131mm x 197mm |
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Critics Review
A powerful, moving adventure of raw fate and betrayed love * Independent on Sunday *
This is a tremendous book, affecting, intelligent, ironic, humane and utterly convincing. It is also extremely funny * Spectator *
Inishowen is a vast page-turner, full of compassion, laughter and zest for the human condition, as well as a rattling good story * Irish Times *
O’Connor is an enviably talented writer… A very fine novelist * Glasgow Herald *
Ireland’s most versatile writer… His storytelling is masterful, and his characters are real and vibrant… A sombre, often heartbreaking story… O’Connor conducts his bittersweet symphony with humour, sensitivity and immense style * Independent on Sunday *
Joseph O'Connor
JOSEPH O’CONNOR was born in Dublin.
His books include:
- Cowboys and Indians
- Inishowen
- Star of the Sea (American Library Association Award, Irish Post Award for Fiction, France’s Prix Millepages, Italy’s Premio Acerbi, Nielsen Golden Book Award, Prix Madeleine Zepter for European Novel of the Year)
- Redemption Falls
- Ghost Light (Dublin One City One Book 2011)
- Shadowplay (Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year, Costa Novel of the Year shortlist)
- My Father’s House (Rome Escape Line trilogy, Hot Press Novel of the Year 2023)
- The Ghosts of Rome (Rome Escape Line trilogy, Irish Book Awards Book of the Year 2025)
His fiction has been translated into forty languages. He received the 2012 Irish PEN Award for Outstanding Contribution to Literature and in 2014 was appointed Frank McCourt Professor and Chair of Creative Writing at the University of Limerick.
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