Life
1950- ; author of Remember Me (Poolbeg 1996), 698pp.; And No Bird Sang (Poolbeg 1997), 528pp.; and Crescendo (Poolbeg 1998), 508pp.
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Notes
John Boland takes Poolbeg to task for the plethora of new novels, and ridicules the authors’ blurbs on the covers; recounts how Mary McCarthy, 45, writes the gloom out of her novel at the behest of the editor Kate Cruise O’Brien [q.v.], and ponders what would have happened to McGahern,
Banville, et al., at the same hands; admits to not having read the new
titles. (The Irish Times, 15 June 1996, ‘Weekend’, p.8).
And No Bird Sang (1997): Eleanor Ross, a successful career woman, newly widowed after a troubled marriage, decides to take a much-needed rest from her overburdened work schedule as a psychotherapist. She chooses the quiet, idyllic fishing village of Coill as her rural retreat. No previous experience - and she has had many - has prepared Eleanor for what she is about to encounter in this new world - a world of gossip, rumour, innuendo. [Amazon notice.]
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