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Desire and Pursuit (Hardcover)

by Frank Delaney (Author)
3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

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  • Hardcover: 400 pages
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd; First Edition edition (7 Sep 1998)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0002258080
  • ISBN-13: 978-0002258081
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 3,906,137 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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What makes Delaney such a compelling storyteller is his fearless invention of characters who combine truly unusual circumstances with utterly plausible behaviour. In this novel, we hear - in alternate chapters - from English journalist Christopher Hunter and young Irishwoman Ann Martin. The scene is Ireland in the early 1970s; while Hunter's investigations reveal some of the darkest and most frightening aspects of the Troubles, Martin is fighting her own personal battles against her cold, manipulative mother and her brutish husband. Delaney handles the two-voice format with pace and assurance. (Kirkus UK)

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To exact revenge for her "snobbery", Ann Halpin's family manoeuvre her into an abusive marriage. At her wedding reception, she is observed by a journalist. He obsessively pursues his vision of possessing this girl whom he has only glimpsed, though she does not even know he exists.

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3.0 out of 5 stars A compulsive fairytale, 20 Feb 2002
By Ms. K. L. Mason "Moggy" (London) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Desire and Pursuit (Paperback)
Well well well, this book is certainly interesting, alternating between graphic descriptions of the treatment of the mentally ill in Ireland in the 1970s, to the torture and burials of IRA informers. Hard-hitting, gritty stuff, until you get to the end, which has the most contrite, fairy-tale ending I've ever read in a 'grown up' book. The ending is a complete let-down and I was very disappointed. I'd like to know what was going through Mr Delaney's mind as his book went from hard-hitting to Mills & Boon in one fell swoop. Bizarre. 3 stars though because the rest of it is good.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Weird but good, 11 Jan 2002
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This review is from: Desire and Pursuit (Paperback)
I only bought this book because ...I had enjoyed The Amethysts. I found the basic premise for the story rather hard to swallow - can one woman really have so much bad luck??! Her mother suddenly decides to not talk to her for no discernible reason, she gets forced into marriage with a brute who rapes her every night. Then she has a child, which dies! What is more, mad with grief she goes to a mental home, where she is given an un-needed hysterectomy by the nasty director.... she really should be on Oprah.
I liked the structure of the book, with Ann and Christopher narrating alternate chapters. I found the descriptions of the Troubles very informative too, though was not all that convinced by Christopher's obsession and undying love for a woman he had never met.
This book, for all its strange ways, is a real page turner. An oddity, but I was up til very late each night reading it, hence my three-star review.
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