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The Queen of Dirt Island
- Narrated by: Emma Lowe
- Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
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The Queen of Dirt Island
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Publisher's Summary
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From the multi-award-winning author of the number one best seller, Strange Flowers, a searing, jubilant story about four generations of women and fierce love.
The Aylward women of Nenagh, Tipperary, are mad about each other, but you wouldn't always think it. You'd have to know them to know—in spite of what the neighbours might say about raised voices and dramatic scenes—that their house is a place of peace, filled with love, a refuge from the sadness and cruelty of the world.
Their story begins at an end and ends at a beginning. It involves wives and widows, gunrunners and gougers, sinners and saints. It's a story of terrible betrayals and fierce loyalties, of isolation and togetherness, of transgression, forgiveness, desire and love. About all the things family can be and all the things it sometimes isn't. From the prize-winning author of Strange Flowers and The Spinning Heart, The Queen of Dirt Island is an uplifting celebration of fierce, loyal love and the powerful stories that bind generations together.
Critic Reviews
"Donal Ryan is giving us characters that we haven't seen in Irish literature before." (Roddy Doyle)
"Ryan's work has set a benchmark to which other writers will aspire." (John Boyne)
"I think you have to truly love people to write like this." (Rachel Joyce)
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- Tracey Ammann
- 30-03-2024
Magnificent
A beautiful uplifting story of stories. Strong women, not a damsel in sight! Just beautiful!
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- Sue Kingham
- 27-02-2024
Fabulous storytelling
I was totally swept up in this family drama. I can still hear the mother sniping at the grandmother and I frequently laughed out loud at their outrageous banter.
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- william wallace
- 04-10-2023
Excellent
I really enjoyed how the lives of ordinary people were made extraordinary , I also liked the connections with Donal Ryan’s other works
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- Anonymous User
- 08-07-2023
Loved it!
Wonderful women with a delicate telling of their lives, loves, losses and learnings. Absolutely loved this insight into the hearts and souls of these women and those they loved.
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- Golfingnanny
- 21-02-2024
Wonderful
It took time to get into this book but I came back to it and could not have been more delighted. Rarely to do you read such wonderful female characters without the world’s expectation of what they should be but are just who they are. Families are often held together by strong matriarchs and this is one. Ignore the reviews citing bad language. They are the wowsers these women rail against - fekkin’ idyots.
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- Anonymous User
- 22-07-2024
Donal Ryan magic
The author’s ability to describe in detail everything about the lives of his book’s cast, his brilliant skill in relating the story, so gifted.
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