Marita Conlon McKenna - Böcker

Tre systrar samlas vid sin mammas sjukbädd. Tre vitt skilda personligheter och öden: Vackra Moya, som alltid varit föremål för andras beundran och vetat hur hon ska få det hon vill ha. Ambitiösa Kate, som försökt göra rätt för sig och arbetat hårt...

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Möt irländska Alice, skild från Liam och med utflugna barn. På dagarna kämpar hon för att få det att gå ihop ekonomiskt som extraanställd på en revisionsbyrå. Egentligen är Alice urusel på siffror och räkenskaper men fenomenal på matlagning, övert...

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Molly Hennessy lämnas ensam när hennes make David oväntat dör i hjärtinfarkt. Deras hus i byn Kilfinn är charmigt men befinner sig till stora delar i förfall. Till Mollys förskräckelse hör dessutom banken av sig och vill att Molly betalar av de lå...

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Kate och Paddy Cassidy har varit gifta i tjugofem år och nu vill Paddy att de gör något alldeles speciellt i samband med silverbröllopet. Men Kate våndas över den hemlighet hon burit på i alla dessa år och som nu kommer att avslöjas. Erin Harris h...

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Esther Doyle is a young Irish girl growing up in a small fishing community in Connemara in the 1950s. Her life is a stable one, bound by the slow rhythms of farming life and the joy of looking after her handicapped sister Nonie. But her existence ...

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The first book in the famine trilogy Under the Hawthorn Tree is Ireland's top selling children's book and a classic for young readers worldwide. Ireland in the 1840s is devastated by famine. When tragedy strikes their family, Eily, Micha...

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När Ellie Matthews mamma dör blir hon plötsligt ensam ansvarig för mammans gamla hattaffär i hjärtat av Dublin. Men förändringens vindar blåser och ett stort fastighetsföretag vill riva alla butikerna på gatan för att bygga en stor galleria. Ellie...

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A magical short story from the collection, BEYOND THE STARS, written and illustrated by two great Irish talents in children's fiction todayCass and her family have moved to Galway because of her dad's job and Cass is devastated - she misses her ol...

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The wide open spaces of Connemara are lost to Esther Doyle when she is impregnated and betrayed by her lover. She is sent to join the 'fallen women' of the Holy Saints Convent in Dublin. Learning through the experiences and the mistakes of the oth...

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Lucie is the middle child in a family that has been devastated by the death of her mother. Struggling to cope without Mum to guide them, Lucie, her brother Hugo, big sister Chloe and Dad are dealing with the emotional fallout of losing someone so ...

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The second book in the famine trilogy At seven, Peggy made a terrifying journey through famine-stricken Ireland. Now thirteen, and determined to make a new life for herself, she sets off alone across the Atlantic to America. Will she ever see her ...

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It's hard to pretend that everything is normal when your whole life has been turned upside down 'She's gone!' The letter said she needed time to be herself again. But what does that mean? Greg and Lucy, at fourteen and twelve, ...

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The final book in the famine trilogy For Eily, Michael and Peggy the memory of the famine is still strong. But Mary-Brigid, Eily's first child, has the future to look forward to. What kind of future is it? Ireland is in turmoil, with eviction...

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The mysterious arrival of Bella Blackwell, 'The Bird Woman', to the village of Ballyglen disturbs the peace and quiet of the Murphy household next door. Granny Rose is suspicious of Bella, and Rory doesn't trust her, but ten-year-old Mia falls und...

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Ireland in the 1840s is in the grip of a terrible famine. When their father and mother go missing in a desperate search for food, the three O'Driscoll children are left to fend for themselves. Their only hope is to find the great-aunts they have h...

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Alice loves to cook. She believes the secret of good food is to cook with passion. Her love affair with cookery has taken her from her parents' seaside hotel, to Paris and then one of Dublin's finest restaurants. Then she marries Liam, and is happ...

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Everyone knows that Amy and Dan are made for each other. So when they announce their engagement their families are over the moon, especially Amy''s mother Helen. What could be more exciting than planning a daughter''s wedding? But as the countdown...

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Maggie Ryan can't help it! She constantly finds herself organizing and meddling in the lives of others, trying to match things and people together, from her neighbours in Dublin's Pleasant Square to her own family. With three bright, beautiful dau...

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Hats! Hats! Hats!Upbrims, sidesweeps, silks, ribbons and trims all become part of Ellie's life when she inherits the little hat shop on Dublin's South Anne Street.But the city is changing and Ellie must decide if she wants to follow the hat-making...

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Martha MacKenzie was an ordinary woman. Nothing extraordinary had ever happened to her, unless she counted her marriage to Dan and the birth of her three perfect, healthy children. Until the day of the accident, when she touched the Lucas boy as h...

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Everything changes for Kate, Moya and Romy when they receive word that Maeve Dillon, their mother, is critically ill. It is time to return from Dublin, London and New York to Rossmore and the old stone house overlooking the Irish Sea where they gr...

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Inheritance changes everything, as Ella Kennedy soon discovers when her father dies and the hundred-acre farm she has grown up on and run for years in the Wexford countryside is no longer hers. Hurt and angry following a fight with her brother, El...

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Kate Cassidy is about to celebrate twenty five years of marriage to Paddy. But the secret she has kept all this time is about to be discovered. Erin Harris has always known that she is different from the rest of her family. Over the years she has ...

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Molly?s perfect life comes crashing down following the unexpected death of her husband David. She is left alone with a big old house to maintain, finances in disarray and her hopes for happiness in a heap. But Molly is a survivor. Despite objectio...

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The No.1 bestselling novel of the Great Irish Famine from one of Ireland's most beloved writersIreland's hopes for freedom are dashed with the arrival of a deadly potato blight that strikes terror in the heart of its people.1845. Seamstress Mary S...

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The No.1 bestselling novel from one of Ireland''s most loved writers! With the threat of the First World War looming, tension simmers under the surface of Ireland. Bright, beautiful and intelligent, the Gifford sisters Grace, Muriel and Nellie kic...

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Esther Doyle is a young Irish girl growing up in a small fishing community in Connemara in the 1950s. Her life is a stable one, bound by the slow rhythms of farming life and the joy of looking after her handicapped sister Nonie. But her existence ...

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Larch Hill is the only home Blue knows. She arrived there just a few days old, wrapped in a blue blanket. Her one hope is to find her mother or father and have a family of her own. Fostered out several times, Blue finds it difficult to fit in. Is ...

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Strange things are happening in Fairy Hill. Thirteen-year-old Anna is upset when she is sent to stay with her dad and his new family at Fairy Hill in the west of Ireland. Hearing whispers in the wind, Anna senses she is being watched, but nobody b...

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'Great story' Irish Times Sophie and Hugh are evacuated to Greystones in Ireland when their house is bombed during the London Blitz. Their mother is seriously injured and their father is away fighting in the war, so the children are sent...

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