Other Bealtaine events included an arts & crafts class with Margriet Schouwenburg on Tuesday, 11th May. Members of the Nenagh Manor Nursing…
THE ELEGANCE OF THE HEDGEHOG
Review by Austin Kenny
This novel has been a publishing sensation in France selling over two and half million copies worldwide and making a literary superstar of its author, Muriel Barbery. It is a curious and engaging story told from the perspective of two different narrators with the switches from one to the other marked by a change in typeface.
The first narrator is Renée Michel. She has spent half of her fifty four years working as the concierge of No. 7 Rue de Grenelle, a fine Hotel Particular in Paris, which has a courtyard and private gardens and is divided into eight luxury apartments. These are the homes of bankers, lawyers and politicians along with their pampered pets and offspring. Archetypal members of the bourgeoisie, they are selfish and arrogant. Some with phony concerns for the plight of the ‘lower’ classes belong to ‘The Caviar Left’. We know them as ‘Smoked Salmon Socialists’. They lead fatuous empty lives and are incapable of engaging meaningfully with life, be it human, plant or animal. When Rennée’s husband dies having been for many
Saturday storytime continues in the library with Kitty and Margot. Storytime is held on alternate Saturdays at 11.30am and is a huge hit with…
A new exhibition of work by Cloughjordan Art Group was launched in the Source Library on Thursday 6th May by acclaimed artist Mary Pickering. A large crowd…
Cashel library's May exhibition was launched Saturday, May 8th. This exhibiton is by Pat Baird and Marie Murphy. Pat and Marie are neighbours and friends…
Also remaining with us for this month is Jean Beard's very popular exhibition of cards, showing historical sites and landscapes around Nenagh. All cards are…
Recommended by Childrens Books Ireland (14yrs+) TENDER MORSELS by MARGO LANAGAN Tender Morsels is a fascinating new adaptation of the ‘Snow White and Rose Red’…
Recommended by Childrens Books Ireland (14yrs+) THE ASK AND THE ANSWER by PATRICK NESS The sequel to the winner of both the Tiptree and the…
Recommended by Childrens Books Ireland ( 9-12yrs) WILMA TENDERFOOT AND THE CASE OF THE FROZEN HEARTS by EMMA KENNEDY Wilma Tenderfoot is not one for…