Ladies' Night at Finbar's Hotel

Each story stands alone but also makes up the vivid picture of life in Dublin''s newly refurbished Finbar''s Hotel . . . funny and poignant'' Sunday Mirror ''Finbar''s Hotel is back, this time with a stellar cast of women writers and a lick of paint . . . But what''s it all about? Well, it would be all too easy to give the game away, so let''s just say that there''s a hilarious reworking of the old immaculate conception theme, a bittersweet confrontation between a daughter and her loopy father, a poignant encounter involving a long-married couple, and a cracking finish . . . it doesn''t matter who wrote what: together they''ve produced a playful, light, highly entertaining book'' Irish Times ''Beneath the humour, whimsy and outright craziness, Ladies'' Night at Finbar''s Hotel hits at the shallowness of current social pretensions and offers a cautious optimism about women''s lives today'' Times Literary Supplement

Product details

• Authors: Dermot Bolger
• Publisher: Picador Uk
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.06.2015
• EAN: 9781509801558
• ISBN: 978-1-5098-0155-8
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 16 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Women, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Anthologies: general, Gender studies: women and girls, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Subject matter intended specifically for women and/or girls