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It’s 1981 and Belfast is burning. So, too, is freshly widowed Bessie Halstone: she burns with a desire to break with her troubled past. With her feckless husband gone, she leaves home hurriedly with her naughty nine-year-old son, Herkie, and not much else. The Dentist, an IRA enforcer, is on her tail. He’s convinced that Bessie, with her “yella hair all puffed up like Merlin Monroe’s,” has absconded with the takings from a bank heist.
But car trouble strands mother and son in Tailorstown, a sleepy Ulster village. Bessie finds temporary work as housekeeper for the handsome and mysterious parish priest.
In the meantime, Lorcan Strong, an artist and a native of the village, is summoned home. He’s been shanghaied into forging paintings for the IRA. It’s work he cannot refuse; his mother and their business are under threat.
Yet things are not what they seem in quirky Tailorstown. There is a “sleeper” in the village. But who? Bizarrely, it is young Herkie, due to his childish curiosity, who unravels the mystery and saves the day.
- Sales Rank: #38869 in eBooks
- Published on: 2013-08-27
- Released on: 2013-08-27
- Format: Kindle eBook
Review
"I’ve been racking my brain to pounce on at least one minor flaw in The Disenchanted Widow, Christina McKenna’s riveting account of a new widow and her 9-year-old son fleeing the IRA in 1980s Belfast, and all in vain. So I have no recourse but to succumb to the pleasures of her prose." —Dan Dervin, The Free Lance-Star
"I was guessing throughout the book ... fast paced." —Night Owl Reviews, 4 stars
From the Author
Even though this is a work of fiction, the situations and occurrences involving Father Cassidy (not his real name) are based on true events.
About the Author
Christina McKenna is a graduate of Belfast College of Art, where she gained an honors degree in fine art, and later a postgraduate degree in English from the University of Ulster. An accomplished painter and novelist, McKenna has exhibited her art internationally and in Ireland, and taught art and English for ten years. She is the author of the highly praised memoir My Mother Wore a Yellow Dress, as well as the nonfiction books The Dark Sacrament and Ireland’s Haunted Women, and a previous Tailorstown novel, The Misremembered Man. She currently lives in Northern Ireland with her husband, the author David M. Kiely, with whom she collaborates on occasion.
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74 of 77 people found the following review helpful.
Off the beaten path
By Jeanne Tassotto
Ireland in the 1980's was a troubled place with tensions between the IRA and the British Government at a high and bombings and beatings all too familiar occurrences bringing grief to many families. When Bess Lawless is informed that her husband has died a violent death she and her young son, Hercules, feel not grief but relief. Packie had done little but bring trouble into their lives, and it seemed as though his death would only bring more of the same. Packie had planned to double cross the IRA and died in the attempt leaving Bess to deal with their enforcer, known as The Dentist. Bess decided that her best hope lay in fleeing, perhaps even as far as America to escape her troubles but unfortunately her aged car left her stranded in the tiny village of Tailorstown.
Meanwhile another of The Dentist's victims is also desperate to flee his attentions. Lorcan Strong is aware that his pompous boss at the museum where he restores paintings does not have Lorcan's best interests at heart when he abruptly decrees that Lorcan is in need of a month's holiday but it is a way to escape at least for awhile. Little did Lorcan realize that his troubles would follow and even be joined by some new ones.
This is a delightful novel. The characters are interesting and totally engaging, the situations begin believably enough and then take a wonderful step (or two) into the absurd. The author has managed to weave the various plot lines into an enchanting tale that leaves this reader hoping for more adventures from these characters.
Fans of Alexander McCall Smith will probably enjoy this novel.
38 of 38 people found the following review helpful.
Spicy, funny, and a bit dark
By Pam Gearhart
Bessie Lawless is a recently widowed mother in her 30's. Her late husband died owing loot from a bank robbery to a very scary gangster who is sure that Bessie knows where the money is. She doesn't.
Bessie and her nine-year-old son Herkie (short for "Hercules") have no option but to run. When Bessie's car breaks down near the village of Tailorstown, she's helped by Gus, a local mechanic who is quite charmed by Bessie. Bessie's bloom is fading but she looks like "Merlin Monroe" to Gus, and Bessie takes full advantage. Gus fixes her car and offers Bessie the use of a cottage that belonged to Gus's late aunt. Bessie decides to stay for awhile, get her bearings, and maybe find a job and make some money so she can keep running.
What makes this different from the usual city mouse-country mouse story -- what gives it a lot of spice -- is that Bessie and Herkie don't lose their hard edges just because they're living in a rose-covered cottage. Bessie is a hard woman and not immediately sympathetic. She had a rotten childhood and a rotten marriage -- she's never known peace, calm, or love. She's short-tempered with Herkie, who she treats more as an accomplice than a son. Nurturing, she's not. Herkie is no better than he needs to be, and is the kind of kid you don't want your children to play with. But he's not mean -- he's just untamed -- and he grew on me.
There's plenty going on besides Herkie and Bessie's story. McKenna gives us several colorful characters and keeps the story moving to a satisfactory (if a bit contrived) conclusion. The story moves quickly, with a good balance of tension and humor.
I quite liked this book. I also liked The Misremembered Man and am looking forward to more from McKenna.
76 of 83 people found the following review helpful.
A Little Too Heavy on the Dialect For Me
By Ms Winston
The premise of the story was of interest to me -- Ireland in 1981 and the Irish hunger strike. The female protagonist, Bessie Lawless, is a young widow with a pre-teen son, who needs to go into hiding from an Irish Republican Army enforcer known as The Dentist. It seems that the life insurance policy on Bessie's late husband had expired due to non-payment of the premium several years before his death, leaving Bessie no way to pay off his debt. When her car break down in a small town, Bessie becomes the housekeeper for a local Catholic priest. She then meets another one on the run from The Dentist -- Lorcan Strong. Bessie and her son Herkie become involved with various locals whilst hiding out from the IRA enforcer.
I really wanted to like this book more than I did, and for me there were several issues: the main one was the dialog and what I felt was an overuse of the local dialect. While the priest spoke standard English, so many of the characters did not that at times it was a real struggle to get through certain scenes. I think the novel could have just as effective by downplaying the dialect early on, while using some expressions to supply local color. The book was also, in my opinion, a little too long at over 400 pages to support the story, as there were times in the middle where my interest flagged (I realize this may not be an issue for others). The ending was clever and unexpected -- for me it was the best part of the book. I did not care for the relationship between Bessie and her son -- Bessie is constantly yelling at the boy and threatening to smack him, and I can't recall many specifically tender moments between the two, although I am sure she loves her son in her own way. Bessie herself seemed unnecessarily coarse, and for me there is only so much of that type of person I find of interest as the focus of a book. This is not a novel I would want to read again, although I might pick up other books by the same author to see if her writing is consistently of this type.
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