ISBN: 9781934137604

Irish Book Awards ShortlistLibrary Journal Best Indie Fiction of the YearPublishers Weekly Best Summer Book Staff PickConcord Monitor/Concord Insider Book of the WeekChatelaine magazine B… More...

Irish Book Awards ShortlistLibrary Journal Best Indie Fiction of the YearPublishers Weekly Best Summer Book Staff PickConcord Monitor/Concord Insider Book of the WeekChatelaine magazine Book Club selectionBrooklyn Book Festival Best Debut Book“Ghost Moth is an impressive debut by a writer who is not afraid to address the so-called ordinary lives of real human beings.” —JOHN BANVILLE, Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea and Ancient Light“Clever, unpredictable, beautifully written and crafted.” —RODDY DOYLE, Booker Prize-winning author of Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha and The Commitments“[Forbes’] writing soaks up the world, and thrills to the beauty of it.” —ANNE ENRIGHT, Booker Prize-winning author of The Gathering and The Forgotten WaltzDuring the hot Irish summer of 1969, tensions rise in Belfast where Katherine, a former actress, and George, a firefighter, struggle to keep buried secrets from destroying their marriage. As Catholic Republicans and Protestant Loyalists clash during the “Troubles” and Northern Ireland moves to the brink of civil war, the lines between private anguish and public outrage disintegrate. An exploration of memory, childhood, illicit love, and loss, Ghost Moth is an exceptional tale about a family—and a country—seeking freedom from ghosts of the past.Born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Michèle Forbes is an award-winning theater, television, and film actress who has toured worldwide with The Great Hunger and Dancing at Lughnasa. She studied literature at Trinity College, Dublin and has worked as a literary reviewer for the Irish Times. Her short stories have received both the Bryan MacMahon and the Michael McLaverty Awards. She lives near Dalkey, Dublin with her husband and two children. Ghost Moth is her first novel. Trade Books>Trade Paperback>Fiction>Fiction>Literary Fict, Bellevue Literary Press Core >1<

2013, ISBN: 193413760X

[EAN: 9781934137604], Neubuch, [PU: Bellevue Literary Press, United States], Language: English. Brand new Book. During the summer of 1969, Northern Ireland, found itself on the brink of c… More...

[EAN: 9781934137604], Neubuch, [PU: Bellevue Literary Press, United States], Language: English. Brand new Book. During the summer of 1969, Northern Ireland, found itself on the brink of civil war as Irish Catholic Republicans and Protestant Loyalists clashed violently in what has become known as "The Troubles." While Forbes doesn't elaborate on the political dimension of this historically significant conflict, she beautifully renders the emotional and psychic trauma felt by both children and adults on the periphery of the violence.Like bestselling novelists Ann-Marie MacDonald and Tana French, Forbes is also an actress who brings finely honed dramatic skills to her fiction. In this masterful debut, Forbes draws on those talents as well as her early memories of Belfast and background as a literary critic to explore the insidious nature of memory and secrets, the power of forgiveness, the ravages of illness, and the preciousness of the "here and now."Beginning with the title, which comes from a fable Katherine passes down to her children about the souls of the dead taking the form of ghost moths just waiting to be caught, this novel masterfully couples poetic descriptions with real-world psychological tension. Shifting in time between 1949 and 1969, Forbes' characters experience love in all its guises: the unrequited, the illicit, the maternal, the unconditional., Books<

ISBN: 9781934137604

Paperback, [PU: Bellevue Literary Press], In this lyrical, evocative debut novel, a family is consumed by dark secrets as tensions rise in Northern Ireland., Contemporary Fiction

ISBN: 9781934137604

Paperback, [PU: Bellevue Literary Press], In this lyrical, evocative debut novel, a family is consumed by dark secrets as tensions rise in Northern Ireland., Contemporary Fiction