"The Misremembered Man", is my first Christina McKenna book, it won't be my last. Some events were absolutly horrific, most were life as is and some were hilarious. mcKenna writes of Ireland and people in a small village in the 1970's. The main characters are Jamie and Lydia, both single, in thei...
I chose this book because it was cheap. I have to admit that. But I adored it. It was such a sweet little story. The very basic storyline is a man, 41, and a woman, 40, in Ireland in 1974 each have never had a relationship with anyone. The man spent his first 10 years suffering terrible abuse and...
Characters well done, interesting outcome at end Not particularly enthralling, very obvious from the start, no surprises and little enjoyment.
All very dull and predictable in terms of plot and character charming Irish story of adoption but also horrors of some of the institutions of years gone by.
Simply an enjoyable read about Hard to follow the Irish slang at first, ended up loving this book and rooting for the characters.
Bessie Lawless, the newly widowed heroine of this darkly funny novel is a wonderful creation. Feisty is a word often wrongly used but it definitely applies to her as she flees Belfast and a murderous IRA debt-collector with her 9-year-old son Herkie clutching his headless Action Man in an ancien...
The Disenchanted Widow by Christina McKenna is a 2014 publication. This is a book I picked up from the Kindle Lending Library. I had no idea what to expect when I started the book, but even so, I couldn't have guessed this story would play out quite like it did. When Bessie's husband dies sudden...
A remarkable memoir which is often humorous and ultimately very moving as a young Catholic girl struggles to break away from destructive influence of her father in 1960s Ulster.
In The Dark Sacrament, co-authors David M. Kiely and Christina McKenna faithfully recount ten contemporary cases of demon possession, haunted houses, and exorcism, and profile the work of two living, active exorcists: Canon William Lendrum, a Protestant, and Father Ignatius McCarthy, a Roman Cath...
Midafternoon, Rose, Paddy, and Jamie pulled out chairs at a Formica table in the Cozy Corner and settled themselves. At that slack hour there were no other customers, apart from itinerant scrap dealer, Barkin’ Bob, in a corner, laboring over a gravy chip while humming a speeded-up version of “Ama...