The Memory Stones [Audiobook] [Audio Cassette]

Kate O'Riordan (Author), Maureen O'Brien (Narrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 2003

Nell Hennessy left Ireland at sixteen to have her daughter Ali. In over thirty years, she has never returned. Now she lives in Paris, enjoying her independence, until a phone call shatters her peace. Her daughter and granddaughter are in danger and Nell must return to her childhood home. But what prevented her making the journey before? What really came between her mother and herself? And how has the unspoken impinged on the lives of four generations of women?

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About the Author

Kate is an award-winning novelist, playwright and television screen writer and has been a recipient of the SUNDAY TRIBUNE/HENNESSY PRIZE for 'Best Emerging Writer'. THE MEMORY STONES is her fourth novel after INVOLVED (shortlisted for Dillons First Fiction Prize), THE BOY IN THE MOON (Arts Council Award) and THE ANGEL IN THE HOUSE, which is being adapted for a feature film. Kate has also contributed to the hugely successful short story collection LADIES NIGHT AT FINBAR'S HOTEL. Kate was brought up in the West of Ireland, but now lives in London with her husband. She is currently working on her fifth novel, and a commissioned screenplay. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Audio Cassette
• Publisher: Chivers Audio Books (December 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0754084183
• ISBN-13: 978-0754084181
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6.8 x 2.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Mothers and Daughters - The Transparent Graft between the Two, March 3, 2011

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Hira N. Hasnain "~Enamored Soul~" (Ontario, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Memory Stones (Paperback)

"Mothers and daughters are not entirely different from lovers, she thinks. Both have the capacity to destroy and to reconstruct once more. But with each reconstruction a little strip of skin, a transparent graft, must be lifted from somewhere to seal up somewhere else." writes Kate O'Riordan in this beautiful gem of a novel about the relationships between mothers and daughters. A heart-warming, lilting story, rich in its prose and lush in its description of beautiful Ireland, following the lives of four generations of women of one family. The struggles of these women, their bonds, their secrets and their warm, relatable characters make a wonderful tale - a poignant and gripping exploration of love, loss and the nature of memory itself, "The Memory Stones" is a must read!