*THE #3 IRISH BESTSELLER*
'Momentous and epic' BERNARD MACLAVERTY
'Superb and moving' JOHN BANVILLE
'A lovely, piercing book' SEBASTIAN BARRY
Three generations. More than a century of famine, war, violence and love.
At sixteen Nancy, the only member of her family to survive the Great Famine, leaves her small island for the mainland. Finding work in a grand house on the edge of Cork City, she feels irrepressibly drawn to the charismatic gardener Michael Egan, sparking a love affair that soon throws her into a fight for her life.
In 1920, Nancy's son Jer has lived through battles of his own as a soldier in the Great War. Now drunk in a jail cell, he struggles to piece together where he has come from, and who he wants to be.
And in the early 1980s, Jer's youngest child Nellie is nearing the end of her life in a council house, moments away from her childhood home; remembering the night when she and her family stole back something that was rightfully theirs, she imagines what lies in store for those who will survive her.
'Brilliantly immerses us in its respective time periods' SUNDAY TIMES
| ISBN: | 9781529112962 |
| Publication date: | 13th January 2022 |
| Author: | Billy OCallaghan |
| Publisher: | Vintage an imprint of Random House |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 219 pages |
| Genres: |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction Narrative theme: Love and relationships Narrative theme: Sense of place Family Drama Sagas |
*THE #3 IRISH BESTSELLER*
'Momentous and epic' BERNARD MACLAVERTY
'Superb and moving' JOHN BANVILLE
'A lovely, piercing book' SEBASTIAN BARRY
Three generations. More than a century of famine, war, violence and love.
At sixteen Nancy, the only member of her family to survive the Great Famine, leaves her small island for the mainland. Finding work in a grand house on the edge of Cork City, she feels irrepressibly drawn to the charismatic gardener Michael Egan, sparking a love affair that soon throws her into a fight for her life.
In 1920, Nancy's son Jer has lived through battles of his own as a soldier in the Great War. Now drunk in a jail cell, he struggles to piece together where he has come from, and who he wants to be.
And in the early 1980s, Jer's youngest child Nellie is nearing the end of her life in a council house, moments away from her childhood home; remembering the night when she and her family stole back something that was rightfully theirs, she imagines what lies in store for those who will survive her.
'Brilliantly immerses us in its respective time periods' SUNDAY TIMES
Life Sentences features in the following genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Family Drama, Sagas
Life Sentences is available in Paperback, Hardback
Life Sentences was written by Billy OCallaghan and published by Vintage an imprint of Random House
Life Sentences has 219 pages
£8.09