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Last Train From Liguria (2009)

by Christine Dwyer Hickey(Favorite Author)

3.46 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1843549875 (ISBN13: 9781843549871)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Atlantic

review 1: A good historical novel with a host of interesting characters. It appealed to my sentimental side and I enjoyed the straightforward poetic style of the author whose Irishness sparkled throughout. Christine Hickey seems to have skipped past the school of writing that requires Irish writers to produce densely unintelligible writing. There were some awkward passages suggesting that her editors did not polish this work as well as they should; but they preserved the enthusiasm of her writing.
review 2: The principle protagonist of this novel is the daughter of an Irish surgeon practicing in London in the 1930’s. She is hired as nanny to the son of a wealthy Italian couple where she meets the boy’s reclusive Irish music teacher. We know things about him that she ... moredoesn’t because the book opens with an episode from his past. There are other changes of point of view and location as the book progresses, with a disreputably louche teacher in 1990s Dublin. The connection between these two is revealed gradually as the book progresses.The book is full of utterly believable characters with a plot that reveals the reaction of an innocent when faced with the gradual accretion of Fascist laws, their impact on friends and eventually on the family for whom she is working. Sixty years later, in Dublin, her past life is known to no-one until fragments are revealed in old documents uncovered by the teacher.I found this to be a fascinating read, combining a subtly realised love story with the gradual unravelling of a mystery. less

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