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0099539799 
Paperback The Green Road
Publication year: 2016
Language: English
Media Paperback
Classification: F
Publisher: Vintage Books, 2016
Resource type: Physical
ISBN: 0099539799 9780099539797
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The children of Rosaleen Madigan leave the west of Ireland for lives they never could have imagined in Dublin, New York and various third-world towns. In her early old age their difficult, wonderful mother announces that she's decided to sell the house and divide the proceeds. Her adult children come back for one last Christmas, with the feeling th
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Reading Group review. Generally not a book that was found to be enjoyable, and we wouldn't therefore recommend it. BUT we are aged between 71 and 82, so perhaps a younger audience might have a different viewpoint?
12/10/17
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022408903X 
Hardback 
Year: 2011
Language: English
Media Hardback
Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd
Resource type: Physical
240p (Hbk.)
Hard to sustain interest as the characters are so unpleasant
12/05/18
0099436949
Paperback
Year: 2003
Language: English
Media Paperback
Edition: New ed.
Publisher: Vintage
Resource type: Physical
229p (Pbk)
0224084690
Hardback
Year: 2008
Language: English
Media Hardback
Content type: Short story
Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd
Resource type: Physical
240p (Hbk.)
0099501635
Paperback 
Year: 2008
Language: English
Media Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Resource type: Physical
260p (Pbk)
This was a difficult read, both in terms of the content and style. The key theme of the abuse of p
05/12/12
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1784875511
Paperback
Year: 2019
Language: English
Media Paperback
Publisher: Vintage Classics
Resource type: Physical
336p (Pbk)
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