Irish Fiction

Everything in Angela’s Dublin house has a prefix - Normandy sourced, south facing, overly ambitious husband. She’s gone along with it all - the small talk, the hyena laughter of the women in the social circle she and Matthew inhabit in Dublin. Until now.

Good Irish short stories will always be a delight. In this selection by Frank O'Connor, himself a distinguished short-story writer, the richly varied Irish tradition of spinning a yarn is triumphantly displayed.

While Frank O’Connor was known primarily as one of Ireland’s finest short-story writers, he was also an accomplished translator.

The story of the title deals with a little boy named Larry and his feelings towards his father. When his father returns home from World War II, Larry is resentful and jealous of losing his mother's undivided attention, and finds himself in a constant struggle to win back her affections.

The contents have been intriguingly divided into eight narrative threads that influenced and informed O'Connor's oeuvre.

Ranging from urgently contemporary London and Dublin to New York's Lower East Side in the nineteenth century, from dark comedy to poignancy, from the wryly provocative to the quietly beautiful, this title includes stories that offer a gathering of dreamers and lost souls who contend with the confusions of living.

A powerful and deeply moving masterpiece about love, partings and reconciliation from the international bestselling author of Star of the Sea 'A virtuoso display of literary talent...brimming with sympathy and skill' Irish TimesDublin, 1907.

Part of the Open Door series of short books for emerging readers.

**Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award 2019** **Winner of the Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year** 'Breathtaking . Joseph O'Connor is a very great artist and storyteller' Sebastian Barry 'A colourful tale of secret love and public performance .

THE INTERNATIONAL NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER In the bitter winter of 1847, from an Ireland torn by injustice and natural disaster, the Star of the Sea sets sail for New York.