Less a haunting than an evocation, Bolger’s play explores the ordinary lives of both families – one marked by tragedy and the other by joy – as they struggle to find love and hope in sickness and in health, in birth and in death… April Bright is haunted by sorrow. Sometimes love and tenderness and…
My ideal audience for this adaptation are people who always wanted to read Ulysses but felt daunted. They may be surprised to find that it remains a book about themselves and people they know. Audiences won’t leave knowing everything about Ulysses, no more than I’ll ever comprehend the fullness of Joyce’s vision, no matter how…
Audacious and moving. Bolger’s brilliant conflation of detective story, ghost hunt and history lesson is compulsive.
A marvellous, multi-faceted, fascinating read…Ireland itself (its landscape, its tensions and generational conflicts) is brilliantly realized.
I was more moved by this book than by anything I have read in a long time. It is utterly heart-breaking. For me it is Bolger’s finest work. .remarkable in its sensitivity and tragic in its accuracy.
Father’s Music pulses to the rhythm of a taut romantic thriller. It is the work of a master craftsman, with intricate plotting and the interweaving of characters’ lives casting a hypnotic spell.