CATHERINE DUNNE

Farrell, un carpintero obsesionado con los detalles, se ocupa de la restauración de una mansión en Dublín cuando conoce a Grace. Su historia de amor podría ser una más, pero el germen que habita en el corazon de Farrell la convierte en algo muy distinto: el pasado y el presente se confunden. El desprecio en sus formas mas punzantes pasean por las paginas de esta novela como fantasmas de algun secreto innombrable. En Un nombre propio, Catherine Dunne explora, con inteligencia, los complejos matices del amor: la obsesion, los celos, el rechazo, hasta adentrarnos en un universo psicologico tan fascinante como perturbador.

After twenty years of marriage, Ben ups and leaves his wife Rose, their children and their family home in Dublin. Just like that: no words of regret, no compromise, no note - only a simple 'I don't love you anymore'. It has taken Rose all this time to get her life together again: she's brought up her three children, Lisa, Brian and Damien single-handedly, and not without difficulty for never again does she want to be completely broke, or to have to revisit that night in hospital with Damien hovering between life and death. To think about it just makes her shudder. Now Rose is concentrating on her business, the 'Bonne Bouche' bakery, and all the clients she's won, all the friends she's made. Her accounts are in order, the business is blooming. Life really doesn't seem too bad. Until Ben returns, again without warning, and it is soon clear that he expects to infiltrate Rose's carefully created world in the most unwelcome of ways. A stunning sequel to In the Beginning, Catherine Dunne's first novel, "Something Like Love" is an astonishing portrait of a marriage, and of how the ties that bind are sometimes there forever.Praise for Catherine Dunne: "The Walled Garden is that great rarity: a flawless novel' Daily Express 'A hugely gratifying book; something to feed the spirit again and again" - "Irish Independent".

Four women gather to celebrate their friendship. A quarter-century of intimacies shared, betrayals survived, differences reconciled. There is Claire, with her unsuitable men; she knows that life will never give her the one thing she has always wanted. Nora, the perfect housewife, has kept something hidden from her friends for over twenty-five years. Maggie has been unhappily married to Ray for longer than she cares to remember. And then there is Georgie, feisty and opinionated, who has had her own way more than is good for her. But tonight, the complex web of spouses, lovers and secrets that has bound them all together is about to unravel. And one of the four women plans not to be there. "At a Time Like This", things can never be the same again ...'Dunne is such a gifted storyteller that she credibly recreates a world that pulls the reader in deep ...' - "Evening Herald".

Lynda Graham has been fortunate in life. She is happily married, with two wonderful children, Ciaran and Katie. She has a beautiful home and garden in one of the most affluent suburbs of Dublin. Her world feels safe and uncomplicated, one she now takes for granted. That is until Jon, a friend of Ciaran's from university - handsome, charming and clever - inveigles his wa more y into their lives. There's something about Jon that Lynda finds unnerving - he is almost too perfect. And her instinct is right: Jon's arrival sets in motion a spiral of events that contributes to the gradual disintegration of all she holds dear. When Jon leaves, his disappearance is even more destructive than his presence. Lynda's quest to track him down reveals unpalatable truths about his past and the reason for his existence in their lives. Lynda knows that Jon is out there somewhere - watching, waiting, malevolent. And she also knows that she must do whatever it takes to protect the most precious thing she has - her family. 'Dunne has a clever knack of turning ordinary lives into compelling fiction' - "Irish Post".

A powerful and compelling story which explores one of the most difficult decisions we might ever have to make. One morning in October, William Harris is confronted by the shocking disappearance of the woman he loves. Julia Seymour has vanished without trace from his life, from her daughter's and from her own. Her sudden departure seems to be both deliberate and final. But William is determined to find her. In the days that follow, he tries to piece together what might have driven her away. His search takes him to London, to India and to Julia's life before he met her. In the process, William discovers secrets about Julia's past that challenge and disturb his view of all they shared together. Secrets that illuminate the present in ways he could never have expected.

Beth flew the coop as soon as she could, while James, her dutiful brother stayed in Dublin, raising a family near their mother, Alice. Now Alice is dying, Beth returns to the shabby grandeur of her childhood home. This is a novel exploring the fragile nature of a mother-daughter relationship.

Hannah, May and Eleanor are sisters. Their early life in Dublin, with their middle-class parents, has prepared them for a comfortable future for marriage, children, and servants. Further north, Mary and Cecilia are also sisters. They are struggling to make living in the linen mills of Belfast, amid rising political tension. The lives of all the sisters are destined to unfold in ways none of them could ever have imagined...

New updated edition of the seminal work by Catherine Dunne, which charted the multifarious lives of the London Irish, in all their variety and colour, now with a brand new foreword by Diarmaid Ferriter.Before the Ryanair Generation, leaving home was for good. Half a million Irish men and women left these shores in the nineteen-fifties, forced by decades of economic stagnation to make their lives elsewhere. For many of these emigrants, mostly young and unskilled, Britain was their only hope of survival. Abandoned by the Irish state, this forgotten generation went in search of employment and security, the dignity of a future that was denied them at home. For many of these youthful emigrants, exile held the promise of adventure and excitement, freedom from the oppressions of De Valeras Ireland. Yet no two emigrant experiences were the same. In a series of compelling interviews, honest, angry, and funny, these vibrant voices reflect the diversity of lives lived away from the homeland, an unconsidered peoples struggle to plant new lives in an alien soil.