A Bit of a Scandal - Softcover

Callaghan, Mary Rose

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0863223966 ISBN 13: 9780863223969

Publisher: Brandon / Mount Eagle Publications Ltd, 2009

Synopsis

A modern retelling of the famous story of Héloise and Abelard by an acclaimed Irish novelist. A Bit of a Scandal opens as Louise, a middle-aged Irish emigrant, returns to Dublin for Christmas after thirty years of living in New York City, where she works as an Art History professor. While waiting for her son to join her, Louise visits an old friend, Felicity, whose home overlooks an old Cistercian monastery. The granite building reminds Louise of her youthful love affair with Peter, a Canadian monk, who, at the time, lived in the same monastery while studying theology. The couple, like their predecessors in medieval times, shared a passionate but impossible love. Although it examines priestly celibacy a rule unchanged since the Middle Ages the novel has many hilarious scenes, as the lovers try to resolve their dilemma.

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Mary Rose Callaghan hits the nail on the head every time in this sharply observed novel set in the zany world of semi-Bohemian Dublin a generation or two ago. That shabby city of gas meters, broken pay phones, lasagne and cheap wine, is recreated as never before. Young people pursue their heart-breakingly emotional, side-splittingly absurd love affairs in dilapidated bed-sits and seedy pubs, settings that seem as far away as the Middle Ages which are also evoked, cleverly, in the novel. This is a real tour de force. --Éilís Ní Dhuibhne

Edition details

• Publisher: Brandon / Mount Eagle Publications Ltd
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0863223966
• ISBN 13: 9780863223969
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 237