Untorn Tickets

Both, desperate to escape their stifling backgrounds, get part-time work in the local cinema. Here they form a binding friendship and, with the help of one charismatic cinema manager, embark on a voyage of discovery.

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Dave falls in love with Rachel, a Jewish girl who also wants to escape from her strict religious background, while Andy falls for a girl he knows he can never have. When the cinema is threatened with closure, the boys realise that more than their new-found freedom is at risk An ambitious noble and his three serving men travel through the Irish countryside in the stifling summer of , using the advantage of the plague which has collapsed society to buy up large swathes of property and land.

They come upon Nobber, a tiny town, whose only living habitants seem to be an egotistical bureaucrat, his volatile wife, a naked blacksmith, and a beautiful Gaelic hostage. Meanwhile, a band of marauding Gaels are roaming around, using the confusion of the sickness to pillage and reclaim lands that once belonged to them. As these groups converge upon the town, the habitants, who up until this point have been under strict curfew, begin to stir from their dwellings, demanding answers from the intruders.

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A deadly stand-off emerges from which no one will escape unscathed. Mina is staring over the edge of the George Washington Bridge when a patrol car drives up. She tries to convince the officers she's not about to jump but they don't believe her. Her husband, Oscar is called to pick her up.

Oscar hopes that leaving New York for a few months will give Mina the space to heal. They travel to London, to an apartment wall-papered with indigo-eyed birds, to Oscars oldest friends, to a canal and blooming flower market. Mina, a classicist, searches for solutions to her failing mental health using mythological women. But she finds a beam of light in a living woman. Friendship and attraction blossom until Oscar and Mina's complicated love is tested. Mariastella Fortuna, known as Stella, was born into rural poverty in a Calabrian village in the early 20th century.

After being abandoned by their father, who left to seek his fortune in L'America, Stella grew up with her beloved mother Assunta, her brothers Giuseppe and Luigi and her sister Tina. Tough, vivacious, and fiercely loyal, the sisters were inseparable, going on to support each other through immigration, marriage, children, loss - and the seven or eight near-death experiences Stella suffered throughout her life. Beginning in their childhood with the time she was burned by frying oil, Assunta became convinced that her eldest daughter was cursed, a victim of the Evil Eye or a malevolent ghost.

But after Stella woke up from 'The Accident', an eighth brush with death, it was Tina who she refused to speak to.

Now the sisters have not spoken in thirty years. Determined to solve the mystery of this falling out, it's up to the family historian to connect the inexplicable dots in Stella's dramatic story, and to suggest, redemption of the battle-scarred and misunderstood woman who has lived her life with a fire inside her which could not be put out. But it's when her body is found the secrets really start to come out From the moment Lucy met her husband's mother, Diana, she was kept at arm's length.

Diana was exquisitely polite, and perfectly friendly, but Lucy knew that she was not what Diana envisioned. Even so, Lucy wanted so much to please her new mother-in-law.

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That was five years ago. Now, Diana has been found dead, a suicide note near her body. Diana claims that she no longer wanted to live because of a battle with cancer. But the autopsy finds no cancer.

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I tracked this book down after reading Father Frank, Paul Burkes first book which was a gem. This is even better.

Mewithoutyou, Lawrence Kansas The Granada

Two teenagers who become friends by working in the same cinema even though they have gone to the same school for five years previously , soon become adept at lining their pockets with a few perks of the job. Both are from strict Catholic families, although with a difference -one is Irish Catholic and the other Polish Catholic. Their Catholicism shapes their childhood lives but they are both on the brink of adulthood -both very keen to break away and form their own lives and opinions. This book is beautifully written, the author really sets everything up well, with great detail regarding the boys, their backgrounds, their tyrannical teachers at school, where they live and the girls they fall in love with.

I found this to be a really good book and am on the hunt for more by Paul Burke. This is an excellent read, as is Paul Burke's earlier book Father Frank. I suppose I would enjoy it even more than the average person having had a very similar upbringing to Dave Kelly in the same part of London.

Only real difference was that the boys in the book are around 8 or 9 years older than me. There is so much of everything mentioned that I can relate to, epecially the 'fictional' St Bede's School the two attended. Rest assured that St Bede's is anything but fictional. Jan 09, Campbell rated it liked it Shelves: Very different from my usual fair but I liked it, and you can ask for much more than that.

Jan 04, Discoverylover added it Shelves: Read this on holiday last year. He writes light, easy to read books, perfect for relaxing in the sun, or on a wet day Summer in NZ in other words! Jan 09, Pam rated it did not like it. Jun 04, Catherine rated it it was ok.

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The blurb on the back of the book sounded interesting but it didn't pass the 3- pages-to-grab-my-interest test. With a million other books on my shelves, I'm moving on. Aug 06, Issi rated it really liked it. I registered a book at BookCrossing. Feb 05, David rated it it was amazing. I liked it, an easy light-hearted read.

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