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Scenes of a Graphic Nature

By: Caroline O'Donoghue
Narrated by: Esther O'Moore Donohoe
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Summary

Charlie Regan is going back to her roots.

Her career as a filmmaker is on standby, she hasn't had a girlfriend in forever, her best friend is sickeningly successful (and being awkward since that night) and her dad is dying of cancer. So the invitation from Cork Film Festival comes like a sign - a chance to explore the Irish homeland she's never seen. But this isn't just any search for long-lost ancestry: Charlie's father is the sole survivor of a tragic accident that killed every other child on the small island where he grew up, and Charlie's one achievement is the film she made that tells his story.

It's only when she arrives in Ireland that she fears his story may have been a lie.

The site of the tragedy yields suspicious clues. The friendly locals turn hostile. And what felt like her heritage - her home - starts to become a trap.

With a sharp eye and sour tongue, Caroline O'Donoghue delivers a delicious contemporary fable of prodigal return. Blisteringly honest, funny and moving, it grapples with Irishness, authenticity and how to define yourself when you don't know your history.

©2020 Caroline O'Donoghue (P)2020 W. F. Howes Ltd
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The accents

As an Irish person I really couldn’t cope with the accents at all, the Irish or the American :(

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Starts good but then turns sour

The story starts well but very quickly turns into tiring and boring. The main character turns out to be crazy, she constantly complains, everything bothers her, she treats people terribly, she is full of prejudices and overreacts to situations. The author goes into excessive detail and occasionally uses very strange expressions, eg "she was the most killable person in here". It's a pity, because it starts off interesting, I even thought that I will look for other books by this author, and in the end it seems that I will avoid her works.

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Satisfying, feminist, and twisty

The plot and writing are superb, dragging you off in a completely different (and much darker) direction than you might expect from the first few chapters, which tread familiar ‘millennial woman with her life in a mess’ territory. What comes later is so much more interesting and unfolds grippingly.

Nice to have a protagonist who isn’t straight. The writing is deft, never fussy or show-off-y. It’s definitely as good as the author’s first book, Promising Young Women - quite possibly better.

Performance wise, some of the folksy country Irish accents got a bit much for my ear - to the point of laughable at times - but then I’m not Irish, so what do I know? Apart from that, this is a really enjoyable engrossing listen. Gripping and easy to digest, but with definite bite and substance too.

I will definitely be pre-ordering whatever O’Donoghue writes next.

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Ok story, dreadful narration

The narrator ruined this book for me. Why so shouty? The accents were all over the place.
It felt like there were a lot of unnecessary strands and dead ends which didn’t add anything, just made it more frustrating.

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Hard to classify

I really enjoyed this book, partly because it is so hard to classify. It was part mystery and part social history with a good dash of modern chicken lit. A good performance and an engrossing story.

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What a chore

I had to force myself to finish this. The protagonist was unlikeable, the narrator irritating, the story as dull as the little island. Am glad it was free.

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Okay story, awful narration

This started out quite slowly and I almost gave up on it because the accents the narrator was using were awful. I stayed with it until the end and the story was okay, but it seemed over complicated to me with too many branches that ultimately led to nothing.

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Poor

Too many plot ideas competing against each other. Did not enjoy. It felt like the author was committing many of the undesirable behaviours/ social faux pas she was criticising in her writing.

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Lots of yelling

The reader really does yell alot. Generally liked the beginning but the end just kinda trailed off

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Easy listen

Ok story but didn’t really love any of the characters and started to lose interest in the plot towards the end as the characters began to grate on me more. I liked the descriptions of Irish pub life and there was enough to keep me just about interested but overall quite a forgettable book.

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