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68 of 70 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
"The Young Wan", is the 4th book published by Brendan O'Carroll that chronicles the life, friends and family of Agnes Brown, although it is now the first when placed in chronological order. The original three books formed a remarkable trilogy that could easily have stood on its own. The author took a risk by expanding the series to 4 but it was a gamble well chosen and readers are brilliantly rewarded. The remarkable woman who we met in the original series now has her story told and even that of her mother and a small bit of her grandparents. The result is a complete picture of a remarkable woman and the family she raised.
The book for me was he darkest of the four but that did not prevent it from at times causing the most pleasurable discomfort from laughter after it brought tears from the words of a devoted son, and sorrow from the brutality, stupidity and pure meanness that only humans practice. If you think you have read of all the cruelty a parent can inflict on a child read Agnes's story. If you think there is a finite depth that a parent can sink to in abuse of their own, read this story, for Dante never created a level so low. That these parents I refer to would seek shelter in an Apartheid state after committing what can only be termed mass murder, is an appropriate locale for those who judged their own child so cruelly.
This book and the four part series it is a portion of is some of the best reading I have ever done, no time I have spent with a book has been more satisfactorily used. The brutal parts of this tale should in no sense put you off from this book and the three that follow, for the series is about the triumph of the human will no matter what it faced, no matter how familiar the face may have been that inflicted such pain. It is a story of a woman that literally handed her dream to a sibling, a woman who never thought of quitting much less did.
This is a remarkable collection by a gifted man who loved his mother enough to tell her story.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Kindle Edition
Brendan - thank you for this touching story and for making me love Mrs Agnes Browne just that little bit more.
16 of 17 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Oh, Brendan O'Carroll. You gave your readers some good old belly laughs and some real heart wrenching moments when you previously wrote about Agnes Browne and her family.
Now, with The Young Wan, we get a chance to see how Agnes herself grew up and the journey she took before becoming the Mammy; how she became best friends with Marion Delaney and how she met her Redser; and all the other adventures she had along the way. Sometimes laugh out loud funny, and other times tearfully sad, this is a book I couldn't wait to read.
We see how Agnes became the strong woman she was in this book; how she coped with the passing of her beloved father; how she brought up and looked after her sister; and how she became her monther's 'mother'.
I throroughly enjoyed this book.
Now, with The Young Wan, we get a chance to see how Agnes herself grew up and the journey she took before becoming the Mammy; how she became best friends with Marion Delaney and how she met her Redser; and all the other adventures she had along the way. Sometimes laugh out loud funny, and other times tearfully sad, this is a book I couldn't wait to read.
We see how Agnes became the strong woman she was in this book; how she coped with the passing of her beloved father; how she brought up and looked after her sister; and how she became her monther's 'mother'.
I throroughly enjoyed this book.
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The Young Wan
fantastic read. I laughed from start to finish. I was a bit sceptical at first but that was completely unfounded. Read more
Published 11 days ago by TerriM
The Young Wan (Paperback)
A story that will hold you enthralled from beginning to end. You feel the pain and the joy, sometimes doubled up with laughter and others racked with sadness. What an author!
Published 1 month ago by P. B. Prescott
I loved this book, its both clever and witty.
This is the first O'Carroll book I have read and I can't wait to read the rest. The book is well written and although I expected it to be funny I did not expect the story to be so... Read more
Published 1 month ago by lyn
The young wan
The best of the four Agnes Browne books. An education in Irish social history woven through an amusing and uplifting tale.
Published 1 month ago by Pamonan
The Young Wan, Brendan O'Carroll
As this is a pre-quel l read it first, and it started me on a journey of four days of reading, apart from a little descrepancy in the story from The Young Wan to The Mammy, they... Read more
Published 3 months ago by Mirhanda
More for the Kindle please...
This is the first review I have left for a book. I feel this book needs the praise it deserves. Such a brilliant book, I looked forward to picking it up. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Nellie
the youn wan
this book is brilliant i am reading it at the moment. I have read the 3 books of brenda o'carroll's the mammy, the chiller and the granny and this book pulls it all together as it... Read more
Published 4 months ago by Elaine Quin
A great read for the Agnes Brown fan!
I was so excited to read this book! It was the first book I downloaded for my Kindle and I loved it! Read more
Published 4 months ago by G. zammit
lots of laughs.
Having read Brendan O'Carroll's Agnes Browne trilogy, which I thouroughly enjoyed, I couldn't wait to start The young Wan, I wasn't disappointed, this was every bit as enjoyable &... Read more
Published 7 months ago by Maria Stephenson
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