He has also written a children's book ( The Adventures of Shay Mouse) and several radio plays broadcast by the RTÉ and the BBC Radio 4. His novels include The Butcher Boy (1992) and Breakfast on Pluto (1998), both shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
McCabe is an Irish writer of mostly dark and violent novels of contemporary, often small-town, Ireland. His books can be read as a plea for a pluralistic Irish culture that can encompass the past without being dominated by it. His prose has a vitality and an anti-authoritarian bent, using everyday language to deconstruct the ideologies at work in Ireland between the early 1960s and the late 1970s. McCabe's strength as an author lies in his ability to probe behind the veneer of respectability and conformity to reveal the brutality and the cloying and corrupting stagnation of Irish small-town life, but he is able to find compassion for the subjects of his fiction. "My kind of book! grabbed my attention from the first lines and I eagerly returned to its pages.Patrick McCabe came to prominence with the publication of his third adult novel, The Butcher Boy, in 1992 the book was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in Britain and won the Irish Times-Aer Lingus Prize for fiction.
To save the child theyve both come to loveand any hopes of preserving their fledgling loveboth must learn to relinquish control so they can embrace the future ahead of them. And away from the family he has sworn to love and protect.
Grahams strength and self-control have served him well and earned him much respect, but chasing perfection has kept him a prisoner of his own discipline. When the baby vanishes with little more than an ominous ransom note hinting at her whereabouts, Amelia and Graham are driven to test the boundaries of their love for this little one.Īmelias detailed plans would normally see her through any trial, but now, desperate and shaken, shes forced to examine her soul and face her one weakness: pride. But she knows she cant do it alone and finds herself in the surprising position of asking Graham, the childs fathera man shes never met beforeto marry her. In this sweet Regency romance, Amelia Barret will risk everything to keep her wordeven to the point of proposing to a sea captain shes never met.Īmelia Barrett, heiress to an estate nestled in the English moors, defies family expectations and promises to raise her dying friends baby.
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