A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende

A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel AllendeVictor Dalmau is a young doctor when he is caught up in the Spanish Civil War, a tragedy that leaves his life and the fate of his country forever changed. Together with his sister in law, he is forced out of his beloved Barcelona and into exile in Chile. There, they find themselves enmeshed in a rich web of characters who come together in love and tragedy over the course of four generations, destined to witness the battle between freedom and

threatening to overwhelm her

but there are signs it is beginning to rot from within

frightening and interesting as those periods are

But even he is in for a shock when the past catches up with him

taking Anna and the reader ever deeper into a strangely beautiful novel about hope and love and orange-bellied parrots

Tamed tells the story of the greatest revolution in human history and reveals the fascinating origins of ten crucial domesticated species

Emotions are like animals:No two are quite the same

Old Ireland in Colour contains an abundance of historical scenes

leaving behind her family and her home for the first time

It can be burned in the garden

Coe - a writer of uncommon decency - reminds us that the way out of this mess is through moderation

two men meet up in a Dublin restaurant