Nuala O. Faolain Ordine dei libri

Von der Sinnlichkeit des Augenblicks, von der Einsamkeit, vom Suchen und Finden der LiebeIn der Mitte ihres Lebens, das angefüllt war mit interessanten Jobs, Abenteuerlust und wechselnden Liebhabern, kehrt Rosie zurück in ihre Heimat Irland. Plötzlich allein, wird sie mit einem Leben konfrontiert, vor dem sie immer davongelaufen war. Erst als sie das verfallene Haus ihres Großvaters renoviert und eintaucht in die Vergangenheit, lernt Rosie mal schmerzhaft, mal heiter mehr über sich selbst und findet Freundschaft, Familie und Liebe.

A portrait of the legendary woman outlaw describes her childhood in post-famine Ireland, work as a confidence trickster and grifter in America, love affair with a big-league criminal, successful robbery of Paris's American Express, imprisonment, and later years. By the author of Are You Somebody? 75,000 first printing.

From one of Ireland's most talented journalists, an extraordinary fiction debut, compelling, colourful and romantic. Kathleen is a 49-year-old travel writer, an Irishwoman based in London who has not been back to Ireland since she was twenty. Her home is her office, her family and friends a few close colleagues. She has not experienced passion since she was young. When, over the course of a few weeks, the props of her life fall away one after another, it is to passion that she turns - not in her own life, but in the fragmentary account of a scandalous affair in 19th century rural Ireland, between the wife of a big Anglo-Irish landlord, and her servant. And so Kathleen is drawn back to Ireland, to see whether she can find out more...

The memoirs of Irish Times journalist Nuala O'Faolain. The book traces her life from childhood in Dublin, through university, to her career in TV and the press, touching on her mother's alcoholism and her growing acceptance of age. This extended edition includes a selection of her journalism.