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Join us this month as Tom Dunne chats to Anna Fitzgerald about Girl in The Making, while our panel discusses Free Therapy by Rebecca Ivory and Barcelona by Mary Costello.
Girl in the Making is a deeply moving, propulsive coming-of-age story from a major new talent. Jean Kennedy is a gentle, perceptive girl growing up in a very strange world: suburban Dublin in the 1970s and '80s. In the company of her mother, her Aunty Ida, and her little brother Baby John F., Jean experiences love and joy. But home is not a safe place, and Jean is unequal and unprotected. When she speaks just one small part of the truth, she must quickly learn to navigate the dangers and possibilities of a world she scarcely understands. Jean's hypnotic, unsparing and ultimately hopeful voice captures the dreams and terrors of girlhood in a brutally hypocritical world, and offers glimpses of a better life. Through it all, Jean's voice pulsates with insight and passion.
In Barcelona, We meet a cast of characters who live turbulent inner lives. In a Spanish hotel room a marriage unravels as a young wife is haunted by a past love. A father travels to Paris to meet his scientist son and is exposed to his son's true nature. A woman attends a reading by a famous author and comes to some painful realisations about her own marriage. The stories in Barcelona reveal the underlying disquiet of modern life and the sometimes brutal nature of humanity. Whether on city streets, long car journeys or in suburban rooms, we glimpse characters as they approach those moments of desperation - or revelation - that change or reshape fate.
Two teenage girls fixated on each other's bodies enter into a destructive competition; a woman's encounter with her ex forces her to reflect on the women's group that saved her; a couple's future is called into question after the damp expert they hire for their bathroom offers them free counselling; an older man's buried grief emerges during an altercation with a mother driving a 4×4; and over the course of a bitter winter a waitress lacks the money to fix an impacted tooth as the cracks begin to show in her precariously balanced life. Free Therapy takes us into the inner lives of women and men who are versed in the language of therapy, possessed with the self-knowledge needed to change their lives, but finding themselves unwilling to doing so. As her characters try and fail to connect - via sex, friendship, screens and work - Rebecca Ivory explores desire in all its forms, revealing the ways in which we posture and present, and the softness and insecurities that lie beneath.
'What's the Story?' is a monthly book show created by Eason in partnership with Virgin Media, featuring exclusive author interviews and book reviews. Live on Virgin Media Player now, you'll love these inspiring interviews and insightful reviews that are sure to have to adding books to your reading lists! Join us this month as Tom Dunne chats to Anna Fitzgerald about Girl in The Making, while our panel discusses Free Therapy by Rebecca Ivory and Barcelona by Mary Costello.
Sinéad Moriarty introduces some of the best new Irish True Crime
Sinéad Moriarty was born and raised in Dublin and was inspired by watching her mother, an author of children's books, writing at the kitchen table. From then on, her childhood dream was to write a novel. At the age of thirty, while working as a journalist in London that she began to write creatively in her spare time, joining a creative writing group and began to write her first novel, The Baby Trail. Since then, Eason Book Ambassador Sinéad has written over 15 books. Shop all Sinéad Moriarty books.