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A captivating short story collection from award-winning novelist Mary Costello exploring love, loss and the turbulent lives of ordinary people

The heartbreaking and evocative debut novel by award-winning Irish writer, Mary Costello

In Barcelona, we meet a cast of characters who live turbulent inner lives. In a Spanish hotel room a marriage unravels as a young wife is haunted by a past love. A father travels to Paris to meet his scientist son and is exposed to his son's true nature. A woman attends a reading by a famous author and comes to some painful realisations about her own marriage.The stories in Barcelona reveal the underlying disquiet of modern life and the someti...

The new novel about love, loyalty and nature, shortlisted for Irish Novel of the Year, from the author of Academy Street

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The new novel about love, loyalty and nature, from the author of Academy Street, Irish Book Awards Book of the Year 2014

Easterfield, Irlanda, 1944. Tess ha sette anni quando sua madre muore, lasciandola con un padre difficile, tre sorelle maggiori e due fratelli. Per lo choc, la bambina smette di parlare, e recupera molto lentamente, con l'aiuto di un ragazzo che lavora nella fattoria. Man mano che Tess cresce, va a scuola e diventa infermiera, le sorelle si sposano. Una di loro, Claire, con un americano, e Tess la raggiunge a New York. Il fulcro della sua vita...

Mary Costello grew up in County Galway. Her collection of short stories, The China Factory, was nominated for the Guardian First Book Award. Her stories have been published in various anthologies and broadcast on radio. She lives in Dublin.Join the discussion on Twitter #AcademyStreet

Mary Costello grew up in County Galway. The China Factory was nominated for the Guardian First Book Award in 2012. Her debut novel, Academy Street, was published by Canongate in 2014. Her stories have been published in various anthologies and broadcast on radio. She lives in Dublin.

Still Full of Sap: Reflections for Those Who Are Considering Growing Older is a humorous look at one woman's growth in faith. Through a series of essays author Mary Costello leads us through her struggles with spirituality as she confronts the myriad problems facing today's families including alcoholism, addiction, and the recovery process. Costello faces her family's problems head-on and talks of their family struggles with unusual candor, sh...

1970s violence-torn Belfast, the city where the Titanic was built. One woman decides to make a stand for peace, while her teenage daughter goes through her first romance. It catches a bitter-sweet yet uplifting glimpse of how life goes on even under the harshest conditions.

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Ze stond aan de rand van het gras. Ze zweefde tussen twee werelden, ontcijferde de grond, tekende de gang, de eetkamer en de trap in de lucht. Ze was nu wanhopig dicht bij huis, bij de kamers en de stemmen die voor haar de eerste belichaming van haar thuis waren geweest. Ze werd overspoeld door herinneringen, haar hart bonsde en de geschiedenis dook op.Tess, die in de jaren veertig in West-Ierland opgroeit, is een bedeesd, introvert kind. Maar...