Christine Dwyer Hickey

The stunning new novel from the bestselling author of Last Train from Liguria. 1950: summering on Cape Cod, two young boys form an unlikely friendship with the artists Jo and Edward Hopper.

The Narrow Land

The stunning new novel from Christine Dwyer Hickey; an uncompromising portrayal of the suburbs and the cruelties brought about by the demands of respectability for women.

The Lives of Women

Waski pas ladu

Bella Stuart leaves London in 1933 for Italy to tutor Alec, a Jewish child, and falls in love with his music teacher, Edward, but when facism tightens its grip and threatens the boy's safety, Bella and Edward take him on a harrowing train ride out of Italy.

Last Train from Liguria

Hailed by the critics as a masterpiece, Tatty is a devastating, yet hilarious, depiction of a troubled Dublin family told through the lively, charismatic voice of a little girl. With brutal honesty, Tatty tells the story of her life with her beloved, feckless Dad, her tormented Mam, her five siblings and the booze that brings them down. This not just an entertaining tale, but also a heartbreaking account of a disturbed childhood that makes for compulsive reading.

Tatty

'As a child she had believed the racecourse was in a different country'. So begins this collection of stories from one of Ireland's master storytellers and appropriately because the collection takes one to many different worlds and shows us Dublin as seen through many different eyes and protagonists of all ages from young to old and in between.

The House on Parkgate Street and Other Dublin Stories

"Originally published by Atlantic Books in 2014."

Part psychologiical thriller, part ghost story, this drama questions contemporary Ireland and it's current generation of lost young men, through three snowbound young men trapped in their new apartment.

Snow Angels

The stunning new novel from the beloved Christine Dwyer Hickey, the bestselling author of Last Train from Liguria.

Farley is dying and we are by his side. As his mind begins to move back over his 75 years, Farley takes us into his past and with the comic wit of a true Dubliner unravels his life - its loves, its losses and its betrayals - right in front of our eyes.

Cold Eye of Heaven

The second, haunting novel of the author's trilogy began with the critically-acclaimed The Dancer is set in Dublin between the wars. Christine Dwyer Hickey paints a disturbingly accurate picture of a family's slow decline. The shadowy figure of the dancer reappears while his son, the gambler of the title, struggles through to early manhood. The twin addictions of father and son, alcoholic and gambler, seep through the pages leaving an indelible mark. At once disquieting and deeply resonant, the plight of her characters creates a vivid sense of time and place, where, in an age of desperate poverty, the tortuous forces of life are brought down to bear on this Dublin family. In The Gambler a powerful creative imagination is at work.

The Gambler

Het is 1933. Bella Stuart laat haar rustige leven in Londen achter zich om in Italië te gaan werken als gouvernante van de zesjarige Alec. Hij is het zoontje van een jonge Joodse erfgename en de aristocraat signor Lami. Wanneer Alecs vader sterft, verhuizen Bella en Alec naar het zomerverblijf van de familie in Bordighera. Daar ontmoet Bella Edward, de pianoleraar van Alec. Geleidelijk groeit er vertrouwen en vriendschap tussen de verlegen Bella, de eigenaardige Alec en de raadselachtige Edward. Wanneer het fascisme Europa in zijn greep krijgt en Mussolini zijn anti-Joodse wetten invoert, komt Alecs leven in gevaar. Bella krijgt de opdracht om Italië te ontvluchten en het jongetje in veiligheid te brengen. Dublin, zestig jaar later. Anna Moore bezoekt haar Nonna, die in een verpleeghuis op sterven ligt. Als ze hoort dat haar oma in verwarde toestand Italiaans heeft gesproken, beseft ze hoe weinig ze weet van de vrouw die haar heeft grootgebracht. In De laatste trein uit Ligurië verbindt Christine Dwyer Hickey het landelijke Ligurië van de jaren dertig met het grauwe bestaan in Dublin tegen het eind van de twintigste eeuw. Dwyer Hickey laat daarmee zien dat identiteit en geschiedenis onlosmakelijk met elkaar verbonden zijn, wat je ook verhult of verandert. ‘Betoverend, een roman die je niet loslaat.’ – Library Journal ‘Uiteindelijk is het geen roman over politiek of geschiedenis. Het is een hartverscheurend liefdesverhaal.’ – The Guardian ‘Een prachtig geschreven roman. Imposant maar ook lichtvoetig. (...) Al lezend voel je gewoon het licht en de warmte van Italië.’ – Mail on Sunday Christine Dwyer Hickey (Dublin, 1960) is auteur van romans en korte verhalen. Ze woont wisselend in Ierland en aan de Italiaanse Rivièra. Inmiddels heeft Dwyer Hickey tien succesvolle romans op haar naam staan, die werden genomineerd voor diverse prijzen (waaronder de Orange Prize en The Irish Book of the Year). De laatste trein uit Ligurië baseerde Christine Dwyer Hickey op haar eigen familiegeschiedenis en werd genomineerd voor de Prix L’Européen de Littérature.

De laatste trein uit Ligurie

"Christine Dwyer Hickey paints a disturbingly accurate picture of a family's slow decline. The shadowy figure of the dancer reappears while his son, the gambler of the title, struggles through to early manhood. The twin addictions of father and son, alcoholic and gambler, keep through the pages, leaving an indelible mark." "At once disquieting and deeply resonant the plight of her characters creates a vivid sense of time and place. In an age of desperate poverty, the torturous forces of life are brought to bear on this Dublin family. In The Gambler a powerful creative imagination is at work."--BOOK JACKET.

In 1933, Bella Stuart leaves her quiet London life to move to Italy to tutor the child of a beautiful Jewish heiress and an elderly Italian aristocrat. Living at the family's summer home, Bella's reserve softens as she comes to love her young charge, and find friendship with Maestro Edward, his enigmatic music teacher. But as the decade draws to an end and fascism tightens its grip on Europe, the fact that Alec is Jewish places his life in grave danger. Bella and Edward take the boy on a terrifying train journey out of Italy - one they have no reason to believe any of them will survive...

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