Connie Wilson revient seule à Londres d'un week-end à Rome où son mari Matt lui a annoncé qu'il ne rentrerait pas avec elle. Elle y retrouve leurs trois garçons. Un roman sur la fragilité des sentiments humains.--[Memento].
A cast of seven Irish women writers have taken over the newly refurbished Finbar's Hotel for one memorable night . . .
Julia, whose young son Sam has died, flees to the west of Ireland to stay with her father-in-law Jeremiah, an old farmer, still living in a rundown farmhouse. In his silent company, Julia stumbles upon the secrets of her husband's family.
Nell, a rare female Master of Wine, enjoys an uncluttered and elegant life in Paris, sharing her days with Lulu - the cantankerous poodle her best friend bequeathed to her as a joke on her deathbed - and sharing her passion for wine with Henri, her lover and married vineyard owner. Until a phone call shatters the peace of her carefully constructed world... It is her daughter's neighbour in Ireland, with news so worrying that Nell can no longer avoid the inevitable. She must return home for the first time in over thirty years. But why has it taken Nell so long to swap the boulevards of Paris for the green fields of Western Ireland? And why didn't she even go back for her own mother's funeral? A poignant and gripping exploration of love, loss and the nature of memory itself, THE MEMORY STONES is a moving study of the intricacies of mother/daughter relationships, observed with razor-sharp precision and great tenderness.
When Kitty Fitzgerald falls for Danny O'Neill it seems nothing could spoil their perfect relationship. Not even their very different backgrounds. But the carefree Danny Kitty knows in Dublin is not the person she finds when they both travel North to meet his family.The O'Neills - Ma, the formidable matriarch, her daughter Monica, and the disturbed and menacing eldest son Eamon - are bound by blood and history to the past thy can never forget. As time goes on long-kept secrets rise to the surface and Kitty finds herself locked into a bitter struggle for the possession of Danny's soul ...A superb debut, Involved is an extraordinarily powerful novel about love and obsession, the intricate pull of family and blood, and the dangerous arrogance of those who seek to loosen the ties that bind.
Science and technology are playing increasingly important roles in our lives. New projects in development today will fundamentally shape the world around us, and manipulate our lived experience. But how and why are such important scientific and technological projects chosen, and what are the consequences of this process? In this book, Kate O'Riordan answers these crucial question. She discovers that many objects, such as genomes and genomic projects, smart grids, de-extinction projects and biosensors cannot be granted scientific legitimacy and developed without extraordinary amounts of media, public relations, celebrity endorsements and private investment. As a result of these filters, only certain projects take centre stage when it comes to funding and political attention. O'Riordan calls these 'unreal objects' - scientific projects and technologies where utopian visions for the future are combined with investment and materialisation in the here and now. This attention to these unreal objects hides many current social issues, especially injustices and inequalities. At the same time they conjure utopian visions for how life might be improved
Im Leben von Nell Hennessy sieht alles nach Erfolg aus: Ende vierzig, Karriere als Weinkritikerin, elegante Wohnung im Herzen von Paris und ein einfühlsamer Weingutbesitzer als Liebhaber, der sich endlich für sie entscheidet. Ein nächtlicher Anruf erschüttert die sorgsam gepflegte Oberfläche und den Schein von Unabhängigkeit – es gibt eine Vergangenheit voller Schuldgefühle. Die Tochter Ali und die Enkelin Grace brauchen Hilfe. Nell kann sich dem Unvermeidbaren nicht länger entziehen. In über dreißig Jahren ist sie kein einziges Mal in ihre irische Heimat zurückgekehrt, nicht einmal zum Begräbnis ihrer Mutter Agnes, nachdem sie mit sechzehn, nach dem Tod der Schwester und schwanger das ländliche Irland fluchtartig verlassen hat. Es ist Zeit zur Rückkehr ins Haus ihrer Kindheit. Das kuriose Tagebuch ihrer Mutter, eine Sammlung von datierten Steinen, hilft Nell, die Verknotungen eines empfindlichen Familiengefüges zu lösen. Steine der Erinnerung verstrickt uns in den Kummer und die scheinbar unentrinnbaren Zwänge der Generationen. Steine der Erinnerung ist ein bewegendes Buch voller scharfer Beobachtungen über Liebe, Verlust und die Kraft der Erinnerung. Kate O’Riordan erzählt die Geschichte von vier Generationen und durchleuchtet so zärtlich wie scharfsichtig den dunklen Gefühlsgrund der Bande zwischen Müttern und Töchtern.
Die junge elternlose Irin Angela ist auf dem Weg, Nonne zu werden. Doch dann verliebt sie sich in London, wo sie in einem Obdachlosenheim für Männer arbeitet, in den schüchternen Restaurator Robert.
