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THE YEARS THAT FOLLOWED – Romance by Catherine Dunne

romance1-1romance1-1It was when a worst nightmare came true that she realised life was too short (and too precious), for compromise, prompting her to stop teaching and start writing. She knows, like no other writer, how to illuminate the intimate, daily, domestic lives of ordinary women and their families. Exciting and elegant, her writing is all of these things, and a lot more. She really is one of Ireland’s best novelists. Catherine Dunne became a fulltime writer in 1995. She roots her limpid, accessible fiction in ordinary women’s lives, exploring love and loss, family and friendship. As a mother and a former teacher she is very much in touch with the teenage psyche and sums up perfectly the difficulties in navigating these turbulent years by saying, ‘teenagers can blindside you.romance-2-1romance-2-1

The Years That Followed, is a novel by Catherine Dunne. https://www.amazon.com/Years-That-Followed-Novel/dp/150113566X Two women, two destinies, a common accident: love. For Calista, good Irish family, very soon arrive, at seventeen, he has the face of Alexandros, thirty beautiful and safe country of Cyprus itself, and leads to a new life in a foreign country. For Pilar, daughter of Spanish peasants, love instead is an unexpected vortex that instantly flips a project pursued for ten years: to leave behind poverty and ignorance to become another. The narrative is place in Torre de Santa Juanita, the Spanish Extremadura. All accesses Friday, 14 July 1989. Her name is Calista. She was accommodated on the deck chair on the terrace to have a bit ‘of refreshment. Somewhere, the phone rang. The answering machine there was only a message from a man’s voice. Every day for four years, Calista had imagined this moment, wondering what it would feel and how he started to give shape to a new life.

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