Mary Keaneová

Irská kuchařka je dramatický příběh inspirovaný skutečným životním osudem Mary Mallonové, která si jako mnozí jiní přijela do Ameriky splnit svůj sen. Díky talentu a tvrdohlavosti se jí podaří vydobýt si vysněnou pozici kuchařky v bohatých domácnostech, její sen ale skončí, když ji úřady jako prvního člověka v Americe označí za bezpříznakového přenašeče břišního tyfu, kterým údajně nakazila desítky lidí, z nichž několik zemřelo. Mary Mallonová, také známá jako Tyfová Mary, nikdy nepřijala, že by měla být zdrojem infekce a dál pod změněnými jmény vařila, ačkoli tyfové epidemie propukaly téměř všude, kde byla zaměstnána. Nakonec musela strávit několik desítek let v karanténě, ve které i zemřela. Irská kuchařka ovšem není pouze tragickou výpovědí o jednom životě, ale i obrazem dobového New Yorku, kde se na pozadí prvních vyrůstajících mrakodrapů mísí sny s trpkou realitou.

Gillam, upstate New York. A town of ordinary, big-lawned suburban houses. The Gleesons have recently moved there and soon welcome the Stanhopes as their new neighbours. Lonely Lena Gleeson wants a friend but Anne Stanhope - cold, elegant, unstable - wants to be left alone. It's left to their children - Lena's youngest, Kate, and Anne's only child, Peter - to find their way to one another. To form a friendship whose resilience and love will be almost broken by the fault line dividing both families, and by the terrible tragedy that will engulf them all. A tragedy whose true origins only become clear many years later . . . A story of love and redemption, faith and forgiveness, Ask Again, Yes reveals the way childhood memories change when viewed from the distance of adulthood - villains lose their menace, and those who appeared innocent seem less so. A story of how, if we're lucky, the violence lurking beneath can be vanquished by the power of love.

1960s Rural Ireland. Greta Cahill must abandon her deserted village to follow her fearless sister Johanna on a ship bound for New York . . . It's here that she steps out of her sister's shadow and into a life of her own, rich with love, work and family. As the years pass, Greta longs to revisit the past - to see her mother, to show her what she has made of herself. But she must protect a family secret, decades old. So when her children conspire to unite the worlds she's kept so carefully apart, Greta fears she could lose it all . . . A profoundly moving, compassionate story of self-discovery, The Walking People is a powerful and compelling story about our connection to the past.

1960s Rural Ireland. Greta Cahill must abandon her quiet village to follow her fearless sister Johanna onto a ship bound for New York . . . It's here that she steps out of her sister's shadow and into a life of her own, rich with love, work and family. As the years pass Greta longs to revisit the past - to see her mother, to show her what she has made of herself. But she must protect a family secret, decades old. So when her children conspire to unite the worlds she's kept so carefully apart, Greta fears she could lose it all . . . A profoundly moving, compassionate story of self-discovery, The Walking People is a powerful and compelling story about our connection to the past. 'A novel of great compassion and understanding . . . rich with story' JOHN BOYNE on Ask Again, Yes 'Keane's previous novel Ask Again, Yes, was on my best Books of 2019, and this is just as good. Its slow, melodic pace proves we don't always need fast action and twists' Prima, 'Best Books of March'