Dismantling Mr Doyle
James Ryan
This is good for a first novel. It's about a benign patriarch of
an Irish family. He retires and neither he nor his wife find it
easy. Something happens which throws everything up in the air.
All the characters are very well described.
Jean 28/7/02
Gill was attracted to the cover (though it seems to bear no
relationship to the book) and thought it was possibly the best
part of the book. The concept of dismantling a middle-class Irish
patriarch is interesting but some parts of the book are really
hard to follow and the book is not particularly well written.
Gill 25/8/02
The frames have
gone all funny - click to make it good.