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5.0. I simply adore coming of age novels and Ardal O’Hanlon’s The Talk of the Town is definitely up there with the best ones. It’s Ireland in the early eighties and Patrick Scully is nineteen, works as a security guard in jeweler’s and yet is an outcast of sorts. He cannot stand the small town mentality and petty violence which ...
11 de jun. de 2020 · 499 reviews20 followers. September 10, 2023. ReviewThe Talk of Pram Town by Joanna NadinThe narrative of this story about mothers, daughters and second chances is split between wananbe singer Connie, Jean (Connie's mother), and Sadie (Connie's daughter) and interspersed with flashbacks from the present day (summer of 1981) to 1969.
A novel by Ardal O'Hanlon A surprise best-seller in Britain, this outrageous, weirdly funny first novel will appeal to fans of Paddy Clark Ha Ha Ha. Not since Holden Caulfield in The Catcher in the Rye has literature seen a young man with as much contempt for hypocrisy and phoniness as Patrick Scully, the narrator of this brilliantly observed tale of a nineteen-year-old's frustrations and dreams.
Noun 1. talk of the town - idle gossip or rumor; ... He will be appearing at Holmfirth Library at 2pm and will talk about his new novel Talk of the Town.
1 de ene. de 1999 · The talk of the town. Paperback – January 1, 1999. Patrick Scully used to be his school's best striker, but now he's just a frustrated 18-year-old working in Dublin. Balls O'Reilly is getting all the attention, even from Scully's girlfriend. A weekend of drinking and fighting ensures that Scully's horrific secret will make him the talk of the ...
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7 de may. de 2010 · 1986, the last day of the summer holidays, and Christopher Hearsey is wondering why his best mate Arthur has suddenly disappeared, and whether lippy Gill Ross a few doors down might know anything about it. The border city of Carlisle is buzzing with rumours following an act of terrible violence, and in order to begin his search Chris must face ...
15 de ene. de 2019 · One night in an isolated college town in the hills of Southern California, a first-year student stumbles into her dorm room, falls asleep—and doesn’t wake up. She sleeps through the morning, into the evening. Her roommate, Mei, cannot rouse her. Neither can the paramedics, nor the perplexed doctors at the hospital.
