· All We Shall Know by Donal Ryan – review The Irish writer’s third novel explores new territory – a foray into the Traveller community – but his heroine lacks depth Out of his comfort zone Estimated Reading Time: 3 mins. · All We Shall Know by Donal Ryan review – a modern-day Irish tragedy This is an extraordinary portrait of adultery, loneliness and betrayal in Estimated Reading Time: 5 mins. Set in contemporary Ireland, this is a novel of self-sacrifice, penance, and circumscribed possibilities for happiness, narrated with great compassion and written with elegant lyricism. At the age of 33, Melody Shee finds herself pregnant and under a moral cloud. The father of her child is not Pat, her husband of a decade, but rather Martin Toppy, a year-old she had been tutoring.
ALL WE SHALL KNOW. by Donal Ryan. BUY NOW FROM. AMAZON GET WEEKLY BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS: Email Address Subscribe Tweet. KIRKUS REVIEW. Set in contemporary Ireland, this is a novel of self-sacrifice, penance, and circumscribed possibilities for happiness, narrated with great compassion and written with elegant lyricism. MORE BY DONAL RYAN. Donal Ryan's talent for character development and narration comes to the fore in All We Shall Know. Melody's personality leaps off the page, flawed, complex, contradictory and above all, human. ABOUT THE AUTHOR. Donal Ryan was born in Nenagh in North Tipperary. "Donal Ryan's new book is an enthrallingly impassioned and compassionate read, ferocious but humane. All We Shall Know acknowledges the acts of vicious self-destruction the human heart is capable of, but does not accept the irreparability of such acts. To his raw, wounded and grieving characters Donal Ryan says: If you are still breathing, you can be redeemed.".
Book Summary. A breathtaking and redemptive novel from the award-winning and Man Booker nominated author Donal Ryan. Melody Shee is alone and in trouble. At 33 years-old, she finds herself pregnant with the child of a 17 year-old Traveller boy, Martin Toppy, and not by her husband Pat. Melody was teaching Martin to read, but now he's gone, and Pat leaves too, full of rage. All We Shall Know. ISBN Author: Donal Ryan. Publisher: Doubleday. Guideline Price: £ Such is the case with 'All We Shall Know' by Donal Ryan. The author has a way with words, his narrative so smooth and sensuous that it catches the reader immediately. The novel begins with Melody Shee's statement that "Martin Toppy is the son of a famous Traveller and the father of my unborn child.
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