Faithful Place by Tana French
Back in 1985, Frank Mackey was nineteen, growing up poor in
Dublin's inner city, and living crammed into a small flat with his family on
Faithful Place. But he had his sights set on a lot more. He and Rosie Daly were
all ready to run away to London together, get married, get good jobs, break
away from factory work and poverty and their old lives.
But on the winter night when they were supposed to leave,
Rosie didn't show. Frank took it for granted that she'd dumped him-probably
because of his alcoholic father, nutcase mother, and generally dysfunctional
family. He never went home again.
Neither did Rosie. Everyone thought she had gone to England
on her own and was over there living a shiny new life. Then, twenty-two years
later, Rosie's suitcase shows up behind a fireplace in a derelict house on
Faithful Place, and Frank is going home whether he likes it or not.
Getting sucked in is a lot easier than getting out again.
Frank finds himself straight back in the dark tangle of relationships he left
behind. The cops working the case want him out of the way, in case loyalty to
his family and community makes him a liability. Faithful Place wants him out
because he's a detective now, and the Place has never liked cops. Frank just
wants to find out what happened to Rosie Daly-and he's willing to do whatever
it takes, to himself or anyone else, to get the job done.
Falling by Emma Kavanagh
Mother, Mother by Koren Zailckas There is gentle teenage daughter Violet, whose experiments
with fasting and drugs land her in a psychiatric ward; eight-year-old Will who
is smart, funny and caring but has already been labelled autistic and is being
home-schooled; and mother Josephine, whose subtly controlling and seemingly
innocent manoeuvres may just be the source of everyone else's despair. And then
there's Rose, the sister who got away. Tired of Josephine's interferences, Rose
ran away from home years earlier and hasn't been heard from since. But as her
mother's intentions become more terrifyingly clear, Violet begins to wonder
whether something far, far worse happened to her older sister.
Mrs. Hemingway by Naomi Woods
On such a Full Sea by Chang-Rae Lee
Remedy is none by William McIlvanneyCharlie Grant, an intense young student at Glasgow
University, watches his father die. Overwhelmed by the memory of this humble
yet dignified death, Charlie is left to face his own fierce resentment for his
adulterous mother. With shades of Hamlet and Camus, William McIlvanney's first
novel is a revelatory portrait of youth, of society, and of family.
The story begins in 1962. Somewhere on a rocky patch of the
sun-drenched Italian coastline a young innkeeper, chest-deep in daydreams,
looks out over the incandescent waters of the Ligurian Sea and views an
apparition: a beautiful woman, a vision in white, approaching him on a boat.
She is an American starlet, he soon learns, and she is dying. 
The story of four travellers whose journeys intersect one
winter in Dublin. Sandrine, a Zimbabwean woman who works as a carer for Tom and
Clare. 
