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Author: Sarah Harte
Genres: Fiction, Genre Fiction
Six characters, all around 50, are reunited for a weekend in West Cork to celebrate the birthday of one of their gang. Inseparable as students in University College Cork, now relations are more strained. The birthday boy’s world is collapsing as he faces bankruptcy. The reactions of his ‘friends’ to this revelation allow the author to skewer the Irish middle class.
The drama peaks with a death, all of which we witness through the observant, but unreliable, narrator Oonagh.
Bestselling novelist Donal Ryan says: This is a book filled with all the stuff of life, struggle, tragedy, redemption, and hope; it's an absolute treat of a novel.
Sarah Harte had an Irish number one bestseller in the 90s, as well as a second bestseller (both Bridget Jones genre) back then, both published by Penguin Ireland. Today. her weekly column in The Examiner national newspaper is often widely shared and sometimes gets big social media attention.
She also has a public profile because her ex-husband, once a successful high-profile entrepreneur, has behaved very badly, in business terms, and made himself an endlessly scrutinised media figure. She has stood strong with admirable class through tough times.
Author: Sarah Harte
Genres: Fiction, Genre Fiction
Six characters, all around 50, are reunited for a weekend in West Cork to celebrate the birthday of one of their gang. Inseparable as students in University College Cork, now relations are more strained. The birthday boy’s world is collapsing as he faces bankruptcy. The reactions of his ‘friends’ to this revelation allow the author to skewer the Irish middle class.
The drama peaks with a death, all of which we witness through the observant, but unreliable, narrator Oonagh.
Bestselling novelist Donal Ryan says: This is a book filled with all the stuff of life, struggle, tragedy, redemption, and hope; it's an absolute treat of a novel.
Sarah Harte had an Irish number one bestseller in the 90s, as well as a second bestseller (both Bridget Jones genre) back then, both published by Penguin Ireland. Today. her weekly column in The Examiner national newspaper is often widely shared and sometimes gets big social media attention.
She also has a public profile because her ex-husband, once a successful high-profile entrepreneur, has behaved very badly, in business terms, and made himself an endlessly scrutinised media figure. She has stood strong with admirable class through tough times.