Anne Enright

A New York, Maria découvre dans les affaires de celui qu'elle aime une photo où elle se reconnaît petite fille mais elle ne se souvient ni des lieux ni des vêtements qu'elle porte. Troublée, elle part à la recherche de son passé. A Dublin, Rose, qui ressemble à Maria, est la fille adoptive d'un couple d'idéalistes, mais pas plus que Maria elle ne sait qui elle est vraiment.

The sum of these stories is a rich tapestry of people struggling to find contentment with one another--and with themselves--in a rapidly changing Ireland.

From Dublin to Venice, from an American college dorm to a holiday caravan in France, these are stories about women stirred, bothered, or fascinated by men they cannot understand, or understand too well. The women are haunted by children, and by the ghosts of the lives they might have led - lit by new flames, old flames, and flames that are guttering out. A woman's one night stand is illuminated by dreams of a young boy on a cliff road, another's is thwarted by an swarm of somnolent bees. A pregnant woman is stuck in a slow lift with a tactile American stranger, a naked mother changes a nappy in a hotel bedroom, and waits for her husband to come back from the bar.

"Spanning thirty years, The Green Road tells the story of Rosaleen, matriarch of the Madigans, a family on the cusp of either coming together or falling irreparably apart."--Dust jacket flap. Rosaleen is matriarch of the Madigans, a family on the cusp of either coming together or falling irreparably apart. As they grew up, Rosaleen's four children left the west of Ireland for lives they could have never imagined in Dublin, New York, and Mali, West Africa. In her early old age their difficult, wonderful mother announces that she's decided to sell the house and divide the proceeds. Her adult children come back for a last Christmas, with the feeling that their childhoods are being erased, their personal history bought and sold.

Explains the technologies of in vitro fertilization, embryo freezing, artificial insemination by donor, surrogate motherhood, and prospective methods of conception.

An exquisitely written historical epic, this novel is based on the true story of the beautiful Irishwoman Eliza Lynch, who, in the 1860's, became, briefly, the richest woman in the world.

During a snowstorm, Gina Moynihan reminisces the string of events that brought her the love of her life, Sean Vallely, and recalls their affair.

When fifteen-year-old Nathanial moves to a sinister town that has been bruised by an ancient evil, he finds himself one of those chosen to fight the cycle of darkness.