WHEEE, my 4 and 5 star book streak continues. I'm usually lucky if I read even two books in a row that I would rate more than a 3, so this is awesome.This is a strange, eerie, gorgeous book. It's a coming of age tale, a story of World War I era Ireland (and beyond), a dark love story(stories?)...
In this brilliant novel, a man searches for the truth about his parentage. His grandmother was a flamboyantly bad actress at the Abbey Theatre, married to a Free State hero. Slowly he uncovers more of his history. The pieces of the past begin to fit together, and the truth of his family is reveal...
The buses are the same green, smoke hangs in the air like a cloud of its own, the train that takes me out to Bray chugs with the same old languor. I tell myself that I have changed and all else hasn't, but even that isn't true. The old self folds round me like a comforting cloak. I want to see hi...