Foolish Mortals - Tapa dura

Críticas

'A complex, wry domestic drama... a writer of the highest order' (Sunday Telegraph)

'A sharp, unsentimental study of a complicated family and how love - both chosen and unbidden - shapes human lives' (Financial Times)

Despite an impressive body of work, which extends to plays for the stage and radio, she remains relatively little known and is often described as the most underrated of Irish authors. She has the power if a quiet talent...her authorial voice is restrained and it is her dialogue which dominates the narrative...Foolish Morals gives us a few glimpses of New Ireland, and Johnston's view of it is bleak, but not without hope' (TLS)

'Foolish Mortals has a cast of convincing characters....Johnston is one of the most revered Irish writers, and this, her fifteenth novel, makes us understand why. Her style is simple and colloquial...there are no literary pretensions: story and characters take priority. However, this modest approach works so well that the result is great writing all the same...Foolish Mortals is essentially an uplifting read' (Time Out - Book of the Week)

Johnston picks her way through the complicated emotional minefield of her 15th novel with a light step. The writing is witty and subtly nuanced and the book is as much about the new Ireland- modern, forward looking, practical and tolerant- as about the individual characters' (Daily Mail)

Reseña del editor

All families are complicated, but some are more complicated than others. And Christmas can only make matters worse.

After Ciara's estranged father is nearly killed by his second wife in a car accident - or was it an accident? - Ciara begins, gingerly, to reenter his life. As her troubled family gather for the holidays, is it too much to hope that they begin to find peace at last? Of course it is.

With cross-dressing twins, new loves and an unpredicatably monstrous matriarch, Christmas was never going to be easy. But it proves both more disastrous and happier than any of them could have guessed.