![]() ![]() I had just began reading Amongst Women (1991) and hurried back to it. I was polite and blamed myself for my lack of understanding and appreciation. I then wrote to her to apologise but I was not the reader she was searching for and that I would not be reading the rest. She had created a publishing house in order to publish and promote her work which I thought was very entrepreneurial of her. ![]() If I agreed to her request she would send me her eBook free of charge. I assume she had come across this very blog where she obtained my contact details. Recently, I was contacted by a British writer who wanted me to review her recently finished novel. I often think to myself when I hear or read comments about ‘good writing’ so that is good writing, yes, I can see that, but what makes it good? McGahern’s work has universally been praised. I’m a little bashful to then admit this is the first McGahern work I have read it won’t be my last. “John McGahern is the Irish novelist everyone should read”, says Colm Tóibín and, considered by some as, arguably the most important Irish novelist since Samuel Beckett. ![]() And so continues my love-affair with Irish fiction. ![]()
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