NUALA O FAOLAIN

Kathleen has not been back home to Ireland since her mother died 30 years ago. Now, caught up in a tortured love affair with Joe, a married Englishman, she returns to her homeland and begins researching and writing a novel based on a scandalous divorce that took place during the potato famine.

Nuala O'Faolain received critical acclaim for her candid memoris, Are You Somebody? and Almost There. Here, she embraces the life of a notorious criminal, an unrepentant and enigmatic daughter of Ireland - Chicago May. Legend says that May was a mesmerizing beauty, with startling blue eyes and hair spun of red and gold who captured the hearts of men wherever she went, at nineteen, she stole her family's savings and ran away from her home in rural Ireland to America, arriving first at Nebraska. May then travelled to Chicago and onto New York where she worked in a variety of unsavoury jobs and was soon hailed in tabloids as a 'Queen of the Underworld'. But this was nothing in comparison with what was to follow. In 1901, May had fallen in love with big-time criminal Eddie Guerin and followed him to Paris where together, they robbed the American Express. But they were both caught and sent to prison. She survived, returning to America to reinvent herself again and again until her death in 1929.

Esta es una historia maravillosa llena de mujeres con sofocos. En primer lugar está Rose Barry, una irlandesa de armas tomar de cincuenta y muchos. Rosie está escribiendo Diez Pensamientos para la mitad del viaje, un cuadernito de autoayuda para mujeres estadounidenses de mediana edad. Luego esta su arisca pero adorable tia Min, que a sus años esta a punto de vivir una aventura al mas puro estilo Huckleberry Finn. O Reeny, fiel escudera de Min y una virtuosa manipuladora del sistema sanitario. Tambien Peg y Tessa, amigas de Rosie de toda la vida.Y ya puestos, la cerdita Madre Irlanda y las fantasmas antepasadas de Rosie, en una casa por habitar que nadie esperaba ya. Con cariño, Rosie es un maravilloso tratado femenino y feminista sobre el saber envejecer y sobre el amor y la amistad en las mujeres de mediana edad. Todo lo que ocurre en esta novela es a la vez triste, divertido y, ante todo, generoso y sincero. Una joya inedita hasta ahora en castellano.

Esta es una historia maravillosa llena de mujeres con sofocos. En primer lugar está Rose Barry, una irlandesa de armas tomar de cincuenta y muchos. Rosie está escribiendo Diez Pensamientos para