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Title: Dublin's Fair City
Author: Cathy Mansell
Narrator: Granine Gillis
Format: Unabridged
Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
Language: English
Release date: 06-28-17
Publisher: Soundings
Genres: Romance, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
On her deathbed, Aileen's mother reveals a secret she has kept for 18 years, and pleads with her daughter to fulfil a last wish. Torn by grief, Aileen leaves Dublin, the Fair City, and Dermot, the man she has grown to love.
Lonely and vulnerable, she unwittingly befriends a salesman at the seed mill where she has found work. Suddenly, her life is in danger. On a visit back to Dublin, Aileen discovers a devastating truth. When she finally decides to return to Dermot, and the family she loves, will the secret she too is now hiding tear her and Dermot apart?
Members Reviews:
Women's Fiction
Dublin's Fair City is Women's Fiction set in the mid 1960's in Dublin and Birmingham. This is a light easy read, a mix of family saga and light romance. Eighteen year old Aileen Maguire lives with her parents, they run a haberdashery shop. Eileen's mother is ill and on her deathbed writes a small note asking Aileen to find her long lost brother and ask his forgiveness.
Aileen's father is shocked by his wife's death and secret revelation, he falls into despair and whilst grieving allows Aileen's Aunt Lizzie to take over and Aileen finds herself cold shouldered out of the family home. She goes to Birmingham to stay with a distant relative and wishes to discover more about her mother and her past. However the answers are not in England.
Events in England test her relationship with boyfriend Dermot who is back in Ireland, they take their relationship to breaking point when Aileen finally returns home for good. Can she find the answers about her long lost brother? Will she make things right with Dermot?
The storyline is very much dialogue led which slows the pace and for me, misses opportunities for leading the read with descriptive sentences filled with emotion and passion. There is room to add depth to the writing by taking more time with the main points and considering if all the lesser story threads add to the main theme. To remain competitive in the saturated women's fiction genre I'd like to see a slimming of weak words and sentences and a touch up of the dialogue to make it vivid, sharp and pace setting.
PERCEPTIVE AND ENGROSSING
Cathy Mansell is a born storyteller. I have read her other novels and came to this one with keen anticipation. And I wasnât disappointed. I felt for Aileenâs bewilderment and anguish as her home life disintegrated, and she was forced to leave her home city of Dublin. With perception the author has described how innocent and trusting a young woman could be even in the mid-sixties. But once in the Midlands, Aileen soon discovers the realities of life and finds herself drawn into a situation that brings with it at first fear and then danger.
The strength of this novel is Aileen herself, not only her loyalty and courage, but her desperate struggle to âdo the right thingâ, which is why she shoulders the burden of her motherâs secret. Peopled with well-drawn characters, I found it an absorbing and enjoyable read - and I do so love a happy ending. Highly recommended.
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Title: Dublin's Fair City
Author: Cathy Mansell
Narrator: Granine Gillis
Format: Unabridged
Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
Language: English
Release date: 06-28-17
Publisher: Soundings
Genres: Romance, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
On her deathbed, Aileen's mother reveals a secret she has kept for 18 years, and pleads with her daughter to fulfil a last wish. Torn by grief, Aileen leaves Dublin, the Fair City, and Dermot, the man she has grown to love.
Lonely and vulnerable, she unwittingly befriends a salesman at the seed mill where she has found work. Suddenly, her life is in danger. On a visit back to Dublin, Aileen discovers a devastating truth. When she finally decides to return to Dermot, and the family she loves, will the secret she too is now hiding tear her and Dermot apart?
Members Reviews:
Women's Fiction
Dublin's Fair City is Women's Fiction set in the mid 1960's in Dublin and Birmingham. This is a light easy read, a mix of family saga and light romance. Eighteen year old Aileen Maguire lives with her parents, they run a haberdashery shop. Eileen's mother is ill and on her deathbed writes a small note asking Aileen to find her long lost brother and ask his forgiveness.
Aileen's father is shocked by his wife's death and secret revelation, he falls into despair and whilst grieving allows Aileen's Aunt Lizzie to take over and Aileen finds herself cold shouldered out of the family home. She goes to Birmingham to stay with a distant relative and wishes to discover more about her mother and her past. However the answers are not in England.
Events in England test her relationship with boyfriend Dermot who is back in Ireland, they take their relationship to breaking point when Aileen finally returns home for good. Can she find the answers about her long lost brother? Will she make things right with Dermot?
The storyline is very much dialogue led which slows the pace and for me, misses opportunities for leading the read with descriptive sentences filled with emotion and passion. There is room to add depth to the writing by taking more time with the main points and considering if all the lesser story threads add to the main theme. To remain competitive in the saturated women's fiction genre I'd like to see a slimming of weak words and sentences and a touch up of the dialogue to make it vivid, sharp and pace setting.
PERCEPTIVE AND ENGROSSING
Cathy Mansell is a born storyteller. I have read her other novels and came to this one with keen anticipation. And I wasnât disappointed. I felt for Aileenâs bewilderment and anguish as her home life disintegrated, and she was forced to leave her home city of Dublin. With perception the author has described how innocent and trusting a young woman could be even in the mid-sixties. But once in the Midlands, Aileen soon discovers the realities of life and finds herself drawn into a situation that brings with it at first fear and then danger.
The strength of this novel is Aileen herself, not only her loyalty and courage, but her desperate struggle to âdo the right thingâ, which is why she shoulders the burden of her motherâs secret. Peopled with well-drawn characters, I found it an absorbing and enjoyable read - and I do so love a happy ending. Highly recommended.
A Problem
Ok, so I have a problem.