Mary McCarthy Bookshop Tour – Great Irish Writers
These are photos of the Mary McCarthy Bookshop Tour, visiting booksellers in Dublin to sign copies of her novel After the Rain. You can click on the images below to see an enlargement. Mary McCarthy Bookshop Tour After the Rain Bookshop Tour Book Synopsis: How would you react if you were diagnosed with terminal cancer? How would you feel? This is the situation for Emer Dorgan, a librarian in her fifties who has been looking...
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Mary McCarthy Easons Article – Best Female Writers
Mary McCarthy Easons Article, original item can be read here In Mary McCarthy’s latest novel, After the Rain, the main character discovers she has terminal cancer. Mary wrote it to help her deal with her brother’s death in 2001. Just months before the book’s release in August, Mary herself was diagnosed with the same illness – a tragic case of life imitating art. Here she discusses her experiences writing about a difficult, yet universal, subject....
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Irish Independent Book Worm – Best Female Authors
Irish Independent book worm review of After the Rain by Mary McCarthy When John Boyne’s The Boy With the Striped Pjyamas was first released, the publishers refused to divulge the book’s content on the dust jacket, believing that readers would shy away from the concentration camp topic and miss out on a brilliant book. Perhaps Mary McCarthy’s publishers, Poolbeg, should have done the same for this touching novel which features another taboo topic. The main...
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Mary McCarthy Northside People
Monday, October 1, 2012 12:00 Life imitates art for terminally ill author By Aoibhinn Twomey IT’S the cruellest case of life imitating art for a Northside author who, like the character she wrote about eight years ago, has been diagnosed with terminal cancer. The tragic irony isn’t lost on author Mary McCarthy, from Glasnevin, who jokes that she should have written about winning the lotto in her book ‘After the Rain’, which has just been...
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