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Scenes of a Graphic Nature

By: Caroline O'Donoghue
Narrated by: Esther O'Moore Donohoe
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Charlie Regan is going back to her roots.

Her career as a filmmaker is on standby, she hasn't had a girlfriend in forever, her best friend is sickeningly successful (and being awkward since that night) and her dad is dying of cancer. So the invitation from Cork Film Festival comes like a sign - a chance to explore the Irish homeland she's never seen. But this isn't just any search for long-lost ancestry: Charlie's father is the sole survivor of a tragic accident that killed every other child on the small island where he grew up, and Charlie's one achievement is the film she made that tells his story.

It's only when she arrives in Ireland that she fears his story may have been a lie.

The site of the tragedy yields suspicious clues. The friendly locals turn hostile. And what felt like her heritage - her home - starts to become a trap.

With a sharp eye and sour tongue, Caroline O'Donoghue delivers a delicious contemporary fable of prodigal return. Blisteringly honest, funny and moving, it grapples with Irishness, authenticity and how to define yourself when you don't know your history.

©2020 Caroline O'Donoghue (P)2020 W. F. Howes Ltd Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Literature & Fiction Small Town & Rural Tear-jerking
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Sometimes it pays to be careful what you wish for. If you rake up the past you have to stir a hornits nest as well.

This is a book about grief, family, Ireland and the nature of Irishnes, with a particular focus on the Irish female experience.

Using a gripping mystery to bring thes r together.

A Very Moving Book

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The reader really does yell alot. Generally liked the beginning but the end just kinda trailed off

Lots of yelling

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The plot and writing are superb, dragging you off in a completely different (and much darker) direction than you might expect from the first few chapters, which tread familiar ‘millennial woman with her life in a mess’ territory. What comes later is so much more interesting and unfolds grippingly.

Nice to have a protagonist who isn’t straight. The writing is deft, never fussy or show-off-y. It’s definitely as good as the author’s first book, Promising Young Women - quite possibly better.

Performance wise, some of the folksy country Irish accents got a bit much for my ear - to the point of laughable at times - but then I’m not Irish, so what do I know? Apart from that, this is a really enjoyable engrossing listen. Gripping and easy to digest, but with definite bite and substance too.

I will definitely be pre-ordering whatever O’Donoghue writes next.

Satisfying, feminist, and twisty

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I found the narrator very grating. It was read so flatly and the intonation so stilted and not representative of normal speech that it really detracted from the book. That said, I enjoyed it- the characters were interesting and the story is a nice easy entertainer.

Weird performance. Pleasant story.

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Got me hooked straightaway. Enjoyed the characters, bits of humour mixed with lots of suspense and some poignant moments.
Performance was lovely. The narrator's accent had undertones of Irish all the way through (doing American or English) but I didn't mind that at all

Really enjoyable

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