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The Hebalist (2013)

by Niamh Boyce(Favorite Author)

3.67 of 5 Votes: 2

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Penguin

review 1: This is a good yarn, a great holiday read. In light of the current media coverage of mother-and-baby homes, laundries and symphisiotomy scandals in the recent past, it resonated well while reading it. If I had one criticism it would be the rammed-in subplot about Matt, which didn't flow with the rest of the book, or indeed make sense until the end. Still, a great first novel and I will look forward to any future books by this author.
review 2: I found this a very frustrating book, things were being alluded to all the time and then it finished at such a pace that you felt you were being pushed out the door while the last few pieces were falling into place and I found it absolutely unbelieveable that a book that was set in the 1930s in Ireland and was telling a s... moretory about this dark skinned man setting up shop and having loads of female visitors at all hours of the day and night and yet not one visit from a local priest!!!! It just didnt do it for me, only saving grace was how things turned out for Emily. less

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