About the Book: It’s 1994 in County Donegal, Ireland, and everyone is talking about Colette Crowley – the writer, the bohemian, the woman who left her husband and sons to pursue a relationship with a married man in Dublin. But now Colette is back, and nobody knows why.Returning to the community to try and reclaim … Continue reading Book Review: The Coast Road by Alan Murrin| Theresa Smith Writes
About the Book: D. H. Lawrence is dying. Exiled in the Mediterranean, he dreams of the past. There are the years early in his marriage during the war, where his desperation drives him to commit a terrible betrayal. And there is a woman in an Italian courtyard, her chestnut hair red with summer. Jacqueline and … Continue reading Book Review: Tenderness by Alison MacLeod| Theresa Smith Writes
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This is what happened in Faha over the Christmas of 1962, in what became known in the parish as the time of the child. It’s almost four years now since I read This is Happiness by Niall Willi…| This Reading Life