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Find out more about all the books featured in this week's episode below - there's also a link to order a copy of each book from your local library.
Week Four - the books
Lessons In Chemistry – Bonnie Garmus (2022)
Chemist Elizabeth Zott is fired from her role at the Hastings Research Institute in the early 1960s as she comes up against the inequalities of that era. She becomes a beloved cooking show host of Supper at Six and uses her platform to set in trail an impetus to change the status quo of the times.
Order a copy of Lessons In Chemistry from your local library HERE.
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The Country Girls - Edna O'Brien (1960)
The Country Girls is a trilogy consisting of three novels: The Country Girls, The Lonely Girl, and Girls in Their Married Bliss. It tells the story of two young girls from Clare, Cait Brady and Baba Brennan, and follows them from childhood through the vicissitudes of adolescence, marriage, emigration to Dublin and then to London and the terrible reckonings of adult life. Cait, the timid romanticist, who unfailingly falls for the wrong kind of man and suffers accordingly, is contrasted with Baba who is more hard-nosed, cynical, and pragmatic.
Order a copy of The Country Girls from your local library HERE.
The Fraud – Zadie Smith (2023)
Based on real historical events, The Fraud is set in 1873 around The 'Tichborne Trial' which captivated Victorian England and became a flashpoint for social tensions. It concerned claims by a man 'the Claimant’ to be the long lost heir to the Tichborne estate. Widowed Scottish housekeeper Mrs Eliza Touchet is captivated by proceedings wondering if his claims are genuine or if he is an imposter? Andrew Bogle meanwhile finds himself the star witness, his future depending on telling the right story.
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Exploring the early days of motherhood, Kilroy delves into the raw, tumultuous emotions of a new mother, as her marriage strains and she grapples with questions of equality, autonomy, and creativity. As Soldier smiles at her baby, Sailor is mentally composing her own suicide note. An old friend makes a welcome return, but can he really offer a lifeline to the woman she used to be?
Order a copy of Soldier Sailor from your local library HERE.
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There is a knock on the door of Eilish Stack's house. Two members of the newly formed Irish secret police are looking for her husband, Larry, a leader of the teaching trade union. Ireland is in the grip of a government veering towards tyranny. Eilish finds herself in the grip of a nightmare set against the backdrop of a crumbling society. Can she keep her family together?
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