The Lives of Women
Author(s): Christine Dwyer Hickey
30 years ago Elaine was a teenager, growing up on a small out-of-town 1970s estate. Every day the men go to work while the women repress the tedium of suburban life: frustrations and appetites are hidden behind a wall of respectability. Yet Elaine sees that most houses have their secrets. When an American family moves into the estate, the veneer of respectability begins to crack. The neighbours start to socialise with each other, they learn how to drink martinis, children are left to their own devices - then a tragic event changed their lives.
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The stunning new novel from Christine Dwyer Hickey, bestselling author of Last Train from Liguria.
Christine Dwyer Hickey is an award-winning novelist and short-story writer. Twice winner of the Listowel Writers' Week short story competition, she was also a prize-winner in the prestigious Observer/Penguin short story competition. Her bestselling novel Tatty was chosen as one of the 50 Irish Books of the Decade, longlisted for the Orange Prize and shortlisted for the Hughes Hughes Irish Novel of the Year Award, for which her novel The Dancer was also shortlisted. Last Train from Liguria, was nominated for the Prix L'Europeen de Litterature. Her latest novel The Cold Eye of Heaven won Irish Novel of the Year 2012 and was nominated for the IMPAC 2013 award. She lives in Dublin.
General Fields
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- : Atlantic Books
- : Atlantic Books
- : 0.215
- : 01 January 2016
- : 198mm X 128mm X 19mm
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 March 2016
- : books
Special Fields
- : Christine Dwyer Hickey
- : Paperback
- : en
- : 823.92
- : 288