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Room for a Single Lady: Complete & Unabridged |  | Author: Clare Boylan
Creator: Niamh Cusack
Publisher: Chivers Audio Books
Category: Book
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Rating:  4 reviews
Format: Audiobook, Unabridged
Media: Audio Cassette
Edition: Unabridged
Number Of Items: 8
ISBN: 0754002667
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780754002666
ASIN: 0754002667
Publication Date: February 1999
Availability: Usually dispatched within 9 to 11 days
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| Customer Reviews:
 Ok, but nothing special December 5, 2009
Nicola (UK)
I was expecting to love this book. It's a family story set in 1950s Dublin and is a sort of 'slice of life' story. It's about the Rafferty family who, to try and make ends meet when father Eugene finds himself out of work, decide to rent out their spare room. They have a number of lodgers, none of whom seem to work out for various reasons. Meanwhile, the daughters of the family, Bridie, Kitty and Rose, are growing up and are having to deal with all the issues that come with it.
Somehow for me this book didn't flow properly. I considered giving up on it several times when I was first reading it, but I decided to carry on with it and, by and large, I'm glad I did. Unfortunately, it didn't grab me nearly as much as I would have hoped, but it's still a very good bit of writing, there are some interesting and unusual characters in the story, and it did make me laugh in a few places.
 GROWING PAINS REMEMBERED October 26, 2008
Barry McCanna (Normandy, France)
Take Dublin in the early fifties, add a family of three growing girls, mix in a procession of eccentric lodgers, whose purpose is to fend off the parents' poverty, and you have a recipe for a finely observed drama of lives crossing and colliding. All this is told by the youngest daughter, who observes and reports upon the goings-on around her. It's written in an easy flowing style that wraps you up and carries you with it. I was laughing out loud as I turned the pages and lurched, like the family, from one minor crisis to another. I was sorry when I'd finished it, and will be looking out for more by this author.
Room For a Singla Lady August 7, 2005
Mrs. M. E. Cotterill (caterham, surrey United Kingdom)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Loved it! I cried when I finished it as I wanted it to go on and on. A simple story of innocence in 50's Ireland but one that everyone can aquaint with whatever age they are. It tells the story of a girl and her family who have hit hard times and of the lodgers that they are forced to take in to earn money to survive. These lodgers shape their lives and their destinys. A fantastic book. I sm now going to read her others.
Interesting and original premise for a book August 7, 2001
21 out of 21 found this review helpful
Set in Ireland. With overbearing Father out of work and overburdened Mother struggling to cope, the three daughters grapple with their teenage growing pains within the constraints of a strict sheltered upbringing.With no money for food, Father decides he will have to rent out the spare room, but only to single females, the sisters observe with fascination as a stream of lodgers follow - each with very different personalities,lives and varying amounts of influence over the three girls.The whole family become very attached to,and intertwined with some of them, and the story also follows the fortunes of some after they have gone on their way.Father will not let go of his strict moral code throughout and his views that 'women don't work' or 'go to university' and are there to 'look after husband and home', whilst long-suffering Mother will not abandon her adamance that a woman should retain finer pursuits such as art,that keep her spirit alive. An enjoyable gentle book about ordinary lives and struggles - written in a quaint style with a certain kind of charm and innocence.I liked it immensely.So many books do not live up to their back-cover synopses,or reviews, and leave you a little drained or depressed.This book seemed just right - being uplifting in its honesty and innocence.
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