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#3 Irish Bestseller</a> by <a href="/author/ocallaghanbilly">Billy O'Callaghan</a></div></div><div class="showmore" id="u_c0750f8b" ><b>A haunting and affective novel about one family's fight for survival against the odds. Based on stories of the author's family handed down over generations, Life Sentences is a short book but really packs a punch in its 215 pages.</b><br><br>Billy O'Callaghan paints a stark but realistic picture of Ireland through the ages, an Ireland to this day that is still coming to terms with its dark and secret past. An Ireland where woman were treated so badly by church and state. I love how the <u class="showmore_hide">author weaves his family story, the setting and characters drew me in immediately and I really found this a unique and atmospheric read.<br><br>Life Sentences tells the story of a family through a century of hardship, starting just shortly after the famine. We are introduced to sixteen year old Nancy the sole survivor of her family after the famine and who leaves her home on the Island of Cape Clear and finds work in a grand house on the edge of Cork City. Life isn't kind to Nancy and her story is heart-breaking but courageous and I had a hard time parting with Nancy and her story.<br><br>This isn't an uplifting book but the prose is beautiful and the author lifts the reader with his words. It's an honest look at a time in Ireland when life was about survival and woman were second class citizens. There is much unsaid in the book and areas where I wanted the author to elaborate, give me more detail and yet on finishing the story I was satisfied with his telling of it and its been on my mind in a good way for the past few days. I could honestly feel the Billy O' Callaghan's heart and soul in this story and I am already looking forward to his next novel.<br><br>A beautiful book, haunting and memorable and another novel to place on my real life book shelf.</u><span class="showmore_showlink">… (<a href="#" onclick="showMore('u_c0750f8b');">more</a>)</span></div class="" ><span id="rate-u_64f552fe" title="4 Stars" aria-title="4 Stars" class="rating rating-style-306 " data-fn="ratingWidget_fromSettingsA" ><span class="rw"><input type="hidden" value="8" name="form_rating" id="form_rating"/></span><i data-rating_value="2" class="fas fa-star selected" ></i><i data-rating_value="4" class="fas fa-star selected" ></i><i data-rating_value="6" class="fas fa-star selected" ></i><i data-rating_value="7" class="fas fa-star selected" ></i><i data-rating_value="10" class=" fas fa-star empty" ></i></span></div><div id="rfd_274400114" class="reviewFlagDialogBox"></div><div class="commentFooter"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="reviewVoteInfo"><span class="reviewVoteCount" id="rvc_274400114"> </span> </span><span class="reviewFlags"><div id="reviewflags_given_274400114" class="reviewflags_given hideme">Flagged<span id="rfi1_274400114" class="hideme" > <i title="Flagged as not a review" class="fas fa-flag-alt reviewflags_notreview"></i></span><span id="rfi2_274400114" class="hideme" > <i title="Flagged as abuse" class="fas fa-flag-alt reviewflags_abuse"></i></span></span></div><span id="rfrf_274400114"> </span></span></span> <span class="controlItems ci3"><a href="/profile/DemFen" target="_top">DemFen</a> | Oct 31, 2024 | <a href="/review/274400114"><i class="fas fa-link"></i></a></span> </div></div></div><div class="bookReview"><div class="bookReview_content"><div id="brtext_274399331" class="commentText brslop"><div class="brev_cover"><a href="/work/19448759" data-workid="19448759" data-title="Dead-House" class="" ><img src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/1628729139.01._SX100_SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg" srcset="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/1628729139.01._SX200_SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg 2x, https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/1628729139.01._SX300_SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg 3x" class="bookReview_cover cover" /></a></div><div class="commentHeader"><div class="postinfo"><a href="/work/19448759" data-workid="19448759" data-title="Dead-House" class="" >Dead House</a> by <a href="/author/billyocallaghan">Billy O Callaghan</a></div></div><div class="showmore" id="u_fea26b6e" ><b>Dead House by Billy O' Callaghan caught my eye while browsing a bookstore lately as the cover and artwork is stunning and I am a sucker for a good Irish ghost story.</b><br>image: <br><br>I did enjoy the novel and O'Callaghan certainly knows how to create a magical sense of time and place. His descriptive writing of Irish landscape and climate is beautiful and real and this was one of the strongest elements of this short novel.<br><br>I didn't however connect with any of the characters <u class="showmore_hide">or was I able to conjure up an image of them as I read the story and this was disappointing. The story was chilling and I loved how little bits of Irish history shined through as the harshness of the famime is brutally described. I really liked the ending as the author left a lot to the readers imagination which is what a good ghost story is all about.<br><br>A short novel with lyrical and descriptive prose and I look forward to future works by this author.</u><span class="showmore_showlink">… (<a href="#" onclick="showMore('u_fea26b6e');">more</a>)</span></div class="" ><span id="rate-u_a1027f7a" title="3 Stars" aria-title="3 Stars" class="rating rating-style-306 " data-fn="ratingWidget_fromSettingsA" ><span class="rw"><input type="hidden" value="6" name="form_rating" id="form_rating"/></span><i data-rating_value="2" class="fas fa-star selected" ></i><i data-rating_value="4" class="fas fa-star selected" ></i><i data-rating_value="5" class="fas fa-star selected" ></i><i data-rating_value="8" class=" fas fa-star empty" ></i><i data-rating_value="10" class=" fas fa-star empty" ></i></span></div><div id="rfd_274399331" class="reviewFlagDialogBox"></div><div class="commentFooter"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="reviewVoteInfo"><span class="reviewVoteCount" id="rvc_274399331"> </span> </span><span class="reviewFlags"><div id="reviewflags_given_274399331" class="reviewflags_given hideme">Flagged<span id="rfi1_274399331" class="hideme" > <i title="Flagged as not a review" class="fas fa-flag-alt reviewflags_notreview"></i></span><span id="rfi2_274399331" class="hideme" > <i title="Flagged as abuse" class="fas fa-flag-alt reviewflags_abuse"></i></span></span></div><span id="rfrf_274399331"> </span></span></span> <span class="controlItems ci3"><a href="/profile/DemFen" target="_top">DemFen</a> | <a href="/work/19448759/reviews" data-workid="19448759" data-title="Dead-House" class="" >10 other reviews</a> | Oct 31, 2024 | <a href="/review/274399331"><i class="fas fa-link"></i></a></span> </div></div></div><div class="bookReview"><div class="bookReview_content"><div id="brtext_251062913" class="commentText brslop"><div class="brev_cover"><a href="/work/19448759" data-workid="19448759" data-title="The-Dead-House-A-Novel" class="" ><img src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/1628729139.01._SX100_SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg" srcset="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/1628729139.01._SX200_SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg 2x, https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/1628729139.01._SX300_SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg 3x" class="bookReview_cover cover" /></a></div><div class="commentHeader"><div class="postinfo"><a href="/work/19448759" data-workid="19448759" data-title="The-Dead-House-A-Novel" class="" >The Dead House: A Novel</a> by <a href="/author/ocallaghanbilly">Billy O'Callaghan</a></div></div><div class="" >Good book. 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The first chapter focuses on Jer, whose sister, Mamie, just died as the result of a violent husband. Jer wants to kill his brother-in-law, but friends lock him up in jail for the night before the funeral. As children of an unwed mother, Nancy, Mamie was like a mother to Jer. <u class="showmore_hide">Jer's life has been hard and becomes even worse as a soldier in WWI where he witnesses so much violence, but Jer has married a good woman and is the father to several.<br><br>The second section tells the story of Nancy, a young girl who survives the famine on an island outside Cork. She goes to Cork and finds work at a woman's house, but is seduced by an older gardener. When she becomes pregnant with Mamie, she is let go, and Michael Egan, the father, basically abandons her as he is already married. Later becomes once more involved with Michael, she gives birth to Jer. She survives the workhouse, and life on the street but manages to live to see her children married - Mamie to a violent man, and Jer to a loving woman.<br><br>The third section is told my Nellie, Jer's youngest daughter as she is lying on her death bed surrounded by her daughter, son-in-law, and grandchildren. Nellie recalls the death of her first son and the burial during the night because the child was born before the nine months after the wedding. <br><br>This is truly a moving story of survival and family dedication to one another during the worst of situations. All three characters wrestle with their place in the world and with a God that may or may not be there. 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