J'ai bien aimé ce livre. L'histoire est intéressante et le message vraiment sympa. Néanmoins le langage "djeuns" utilisé pendant tout le début du livre par une des protagonistes est vraiment trop. Je ne sais pas si dans la version anglaise cela se ressent pareil mais là c'était vraiment lourd. Même si l'histoire est sympa j'ai néanmoins trouvé que cela manquait de profondeur dans certains dialogue surtout à la fin.En bref un chouette livre qui mérite ses trois étoiles mais pas un truc dément non plus. I loved this book. After I started it I couldn't put it down, it was a great book to curl up with and listen to MCR to.The story is set, mostly in modern day Dublin, Ireland, but it also recalls some of the characters past memories in Wexford. The way it jumped back to some memories was an awesome way to shed some light on current events and emotions in the story.The story is told in third person which is good because it makes it easier to adjust to the jumps in time and/or place.At the beginning of the story Mary encounters a woman on her way home from school and the woman weirdly knows her name and Mary soon finds out the woman is a ghost. And not just any ghost, it's her great-grandmother's ghost. Tansey. The ghost wants to take Mary's grandmother (Tansey's daughter) on one last adventure so they can talk, so that Emer (Mary's grandmother/Tansey's daughter) is less afraid of death, o she can go peacefully.My favourite characters have got to be all of the main ladies: Mary, Tansey, Scarlett and Emer because it seemed the cheek and sarcasm ran in the family.The story was overall sweet and heartwarming, not scary despite their being a ghost. And the ending was expected as it was what the story led up to, so it made it less sad which is a favor Roddy Doyle has done as he could have ripped my heart out if he had chosen to. It made my decision to which shorlisted book on this years list is my favourite that much harder.
What do You think about La Gita Di Mezzanotte (2012)?
Not sure why I couldn't finish this book. May give it a go another time...
—Chuck
A nice little Roddy Doyle story - more like a short story than a novel.
—uriel01
really good book though sad at some points. really recommend it
—jonam
