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- Boylan, Clare
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(2001)After 50 years of marriage in a Dublin suburb, Dick and Lily Butler enjoy a "safe" life of compromise. Then one night their balanced world is upended forever, when Lily wakes to find Dick under the bed, holding a shotgun, convinced there's an intruder in the house. Part thriller, part love story, part macabre comedy, Beloved Strangeris also an analysis of marriage at the end of the millennium — a changeless institution in a vastly altered world.
- Clark, Nancy
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(2003)In the summer of 1989, three generations of the Hill family descend upon the quiet old manse of their maiden aunt, Lily. All the Hills are looking for something to do and someone to love. And though they claim to have come "just for a visit, " the summer ends and no one leaves. If all this weren't enough to drive the usually solitary Lily to her bedroom stronghold, there is a graduate student with a tenuous connection to the family, who is researching the charmed world of the WASP in their midst. He becomes the catalyst that unwittingly drives forward the shenanigans, misunderstandings, family growing pains and Shakespearean romantic couplings that the novel has in store.
- Conlon, Evelyn
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(1998)The men and women of this novel are a diverse but tightly knit group, related to each other by family ties or by the simple fact of living on the same Dublin street. Their stories reflect the pressures — and pleasures — generated by rapidly changing social values. And at the heart of it all is the quiet bravery of one woman.
- Fforde, Katie
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(2001)Fforde serves up a delicious romantic comedy about cherished friends, despised ex-husbands and life's greatest joys — sex and cooking.
- Huth, Angela
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(1998)Annie Macleoud and Myrtle Duns can' t remember a time when they were not the most loving though rivalrous friends, loyal to each other in the harsh climate of the Scottish fishing village that is their home. Their extraordinary friendship is tested many times, most of all when Myrtle embarks upon the great and passionate love affair of her life, while beautiful Annie finds only disappointment.
- Kelly, Cathy
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(2001)Hannah, Emma, and Leonie are three women at a critical turning point in their lives. They meet on a holiday in Egypt and find themselves changing in completely unexpected ways.
- Miller, Hugh
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(1999)Father Peter Clifford's arrival in the rural Irish town of Ballykissangel is something of a shock to both himself and the residents. The quirky hamlet is hardly the sleepy backwater he'd envisioned, and the cast of colorful characters who parade in and out of the church far exceed his wildest expectations. (Based on the public television series by Kiernan Prendiville).
- O'Brien, Edna
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(1998)O'Brien's latest novel charts the quick and critical demise of relations between "the warring sons of warring sons" fighting over inherited land in the countryside of western Ireland. This novel is written in tones a bit more reminiscent of Bronte than Binchy but is a satisfying read for those entranced by Ireland and its history and people.
- O'Faolain, Nuala
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(2001)When a travel writer realizes the painful cost of her refugee existence, she returns to Ireland to investigate the true story of a scandalous affair between the wife of an English landlord and an Irish servant during the latter years of the famine.
- Pilcher, Rosamonde
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(1995)Elfrida Phipps, once on the London stage and retired at 62, never anticipated going off with a man. But after a devastating tragedy, church organist Oscar Blundell asks for her companionship. So with her brown-and-white dog in tow, Elfrida begins her journey, not knowing that joining her and Oscar at a rundown Victorian house in Scotland will be a young woman nursing a broken heart, a teenager escaping an unhappy home, and a stranger arriving during a snowstorm.
- Shea, Suzanne Strempek
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(1999)Lily Wick always knew she was destined to be an artist, and now her work is in high demand in her small Massachusetts town. When a supermarket heiress commissions Lily to paint a family portrait, Lily senses her lifelong dream is finally within her grasp.
- Siddons, Anne River
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(1999)It is summer, 1961, and Lila Lee Bayliss, motherless since birth and now 13, doesn't quite know what to make of Nora Findlay. Nora smokes, swears, wears short shorts, and when she listens, she looks at you as if she's never heard a human voice before. She also laughs a lot, something that's been missing for a long time in the Bayliss household, and she seems to have done just about everything fun there is to do in the world. Soon, even Lila's somber father is humming while he shaves.
- Taylor, Alice
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(1998)Jack Phelan's family has occupied the same farm and home for generations — until the demanding outsider he marries begins to undermine their way of life. Soon even the future of their home is cast into doubt; only the stable hand of Jack's sister Kate stands to save the Phelans from losing their ties to their own land.
- Trollope, Joanna
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(1996)A young woman living in a crumbling villa on the Mediterranean island of Malta endures the deprivation and devastation of wartime bombing and learns that while life doesn't always go as planned, neither does love.
- Willett, Marcia
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(2002)Maudie Todhunter, a feisty widow reluctantly decides to put her country estate up for sale. Moorgate, so named because it stands at the gates of the Scottish Moors, attracts many would-be householders and the sale process reveals some surprising family secrets.
- Willett, Marcia
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(2003)In this spellbinding tale born of the difficulties endured by both mothers and daughters, a woman is abandoned by her mother as a child but now the prodigal mom returns. Her summer lodger is also concealing a painful past with stunning repercussions.