Summary
Poignant, funny memoir of an unconventional family in suburban Dublin, written by Irish Times columnist.
‘Quite brilliant; beautifully, cleverly observed; funny, heart-breaking.’ - Roddy Doyle
Hilary is four, not yet five, and she has a mother and a father and an older brother and sisters. She even has a name at home - Billy - that is different from her written-down name. But now that she is in Low Babies in the local convent school, it seems Hilary has something else called r…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781784161132 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1784161136 |
| Author: | Hilary Fannin |
| Publisher: | Transworld Publishers Ltd |
| Imprint: | Black Swan |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 15 July 2016 |
| Weight: | 168g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 127mm x 15mm |
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Critics Review
“Quite brilliant; beautifully, cleverly observed; funny, heart-breaking.” –Roddy Doyle
Quite brilliant; beautifully, cleverly observed; funny, heart-breaking. – Roddy Doyle
Brilliantly written and absolutely hilarious. Hilary is an extraordinary writer and Hopscotch is destined to become a classic of the form. – Donal Ryan
The best book I read last year. A heartbreaking story masterfully written. – Paul Howard
Hilary Fannin carries the reader deep into the mind of a little girl baffled by the world around in her candid, intoxicating memoir … a lucid, crystalline and intoxicating style. Hopscotch tells a private story with candour and exactitude, love and understanding, artfulness and wit. – Carlo Gebler * Irish Times *
Hopscotch captures the joys, fears and bewilderments of a 1960s Dublin childhood through the wonderful prism of an innocent young girl’s puzzled attempts to navigate the muddy waters of her parents’ world. It is written with a deft sleight of hand that makes it wonderfully funny and moving. – Dermot Bolger * Sunday Independent *
Completely enthralling; poignant, vivid, laugh-out-loud moments. – Catherine Dunne
The most moving memoir I’ve read since Nuala O Faolain’s Are You Somebody? A mesmeric, evocative tour de force. – Joe Duffy
Truly extraordinary and lyrical prose … a hymn of boundless love and gratitude and redemption … this rather wonderful book. – Brenda Power * Sunday Times *
Hopscotch is searingly honest, hilariously funny and utterly memorable. – Mary Shine Thompson * Irish Independent *
Consistently funny, frequently touching and full of passages studded with sharp observation, impressive psychological insight and surreal invention … a small masterpiece. – Enda O’Doherty * Dublin Review of Books *
About The Author
Hilary Fannin
HILARY FANNIN is an award-winning playwright and newspaper columnist. Born in Dublin, where she still lives, she was writer in association at the Abbey Theatre in its centenary year. Her plays, including Mackerel Sky, Doldrum Bay, Famished Castle and an adaptation of Racine’s Phaedra, have been performed in Ireland, London, Europe and North America. She writes a weekly column for the Irish Times and was awarded Irish Columnist of the Year in 2019. Her memoir, Hopscotch, was published to critical acclaim in 2015. The Weight of Love is her first novel.
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