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Inishowen

Yazan: Joseph O'Connor
Seslendiren: Stephen Daly, Emilea Wilson, Aoife McMahon
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From the author of Shadowplay, shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize, The Costa Novel Prize and Novel of the Year winner at the An Post Irish Book Awards.

Inishowen is a story of love found late, of hidden connections and a journey that changes three lives forever. There's Inspector Martin Aitken whose life is a mess. Divorced, his career's in chaos. There are terrible things growing inside his house and the last thing he needs is a collapsed woman in the street on Christmas Eve. There's Ellen Donelly, a woman on a mission, coming to Ireland to find her mother, and escape her husband. Milton Amery is her husband, an unfaithful New York plastic surgeon. All three of their roads lead to Inishowen - a mysterious place that holds secrets that can unlock the heart.

‘A vast page-turner, full of compassion, laughter and zest for the human condition, as well as a rattling good story.’ — Irish Times

‘Ireland’s greatest storyteller.’ — The Sunday Independent

‘One of the best writers working today.’ – Alice Walker

“A powerful, moving adventure of raw fate and betrayed love.” INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY

“This is a tremendous book…affecting, intelligent, ironic, humane and utterly convincing. It is also extremely funny.” SPECTATOR©2021 Joseph O'Connor (P)2021 W. F. Howes Ltd Suspense Thriller & Suspense Kurgu Evlilik Samimi
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The plot was interesting enough but one of the characters (Spiggott) was too silly to be plausible. There was a sequence involving a Lear Jet which stretched the suspension of disbelief too far. The ending was a bit flat.

I love Joe O’Connor’s work but this was not one of his best. I wouldn’t say don’t read it but don’t expect too much and if you are Irish - you have been warned about the awful accents so listen at your own risk.

The accents were all terrible.

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odd supporting characters with quite a lot of time spent on them, so quite a slow development. narration good, butsome accents terrible

great main characters

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Inspector Martin Aitken's life is a mess. He's divorced, his career's in chaos, and the last thing he needs this Christmas Eve is a strange woman collapsed on a Dublin street. Ellen Donnelly is a woman on a mission, coming to Ireland to find her mother and escape her marriage. Dr Milton Amery, a New York plastic surgeon, is her unfaithful husband. The three are beginning new journeys, each of which lead to Inishowen.
This is a very well paced and interesting character driven story. It is about identity, the history of Ireland, the oppression of the Catholic Church and how it ruled so much of people's lives in the past. It touches on family and mortality. The themes are epic in what is a very personal story. However all of this is let down quite badly by very poor narration, the accents are all over the place, especially the female narrator and there is no difference between the tone of the characters speaking so you really do not get a sense of those characters. It is a shame and hopefully soon it will be redone.

GOOD STORY SPOILT BY POOR NARRATION.

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The Irish accents spoken by the American female are so bad that it was almost unlistenable. The male Dublin accent is what saved the performance.

Accents

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Ridiculously over-elaborated plot, with some direly unsuccessful and inappropriate comic interludes. But the amount of withheld information keeps it going most of the time. As some other reviewers have pointed out, there are some lazy mistakes in the pronunciation of place-names - including the title place. How could anyone with any kind of ear, or sense of language, think it was ‘In-ISH-o -wen’’ rather than INNISH -Owen’? Similarly with the musical quotations: all of them were from very well-known songs, including ‘Galway Bay’, ‘The Croppy Boy’ and ‘A policeman’s lot is not a happy one’. So why were they rendered, tunelessly and flatly, to no recognisable melody?

There has been some laziness on the part of the performers, and much greater laziness on the part of the editor.

A lot of unfulfilled promise

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