3 Novels by Carol Coffey (.ePUB)
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Overview: Carol Coffey lives in Co. Wicklow, Ireland and has a background in special needs education, which influences her writing.
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics
The Penance Room
Thirteen year old Christopher Munroe has lived his entire life in a nursing home owned and run by his parents in the mining town of Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia.
Christopher is not like other kids. By the time he was five he had lost his hearing to a degenerative condition and spends his days wandering the run-down home alone with only the dying and the ghosts of past residents to keep him company. When Christopher’s foot is severed in an accident, the blow to his parents leaves an atmosphere of loss and blame in the already unhappy house.
Cut off from other children, Christopher becomes obsessed with redemption for the residents at his mother’s nursing home and is convinced that uncovering their pasts will somehow free him from his own guilt.
When a mysterious young man arrives from Sydney to research the lives of aging migrants, he uncovers more about the people living there than he had ever imagined. More shocking than anything is the truth about the strange boy who, despite his silence, manipulates and controls life in the dismal surroundings.
The Incredible Life of Jonathan Doe
Brendan Martin is an American-born loner raised in Ireland by his silent, embittered mother before escaping back to New York, where he lives and works each day in blissful isolation in the crowded city. Brendan spends his days happily labouring on building sites and his evenings drinking alone in bars and hooking up with a constant stream of one-night stands. Following a second DUI, Brendan’s peaceful and predictable life ends abruptly and he is forced to go to live in the town of Dover, New Jersey, with his overbearing uncle. There he forms an unlikely friendship with his meek, downtrodden cousin Eileen. Forced into completing his community service, he meets Jonathan Doe, an intriguing man living in a local homeless shelter whose amazing stories of a happy childhood in the Appalachian Mountains captivate him. Within weeks of his arrival in Dover, Brendan loses himself in the strange man’s incredible stories. Fascinated by the fact that Jonathan Doe can no longer remember exactly where he is from, Brendan becomes obsessed with helping his new friend find his way back to the kind of home he himself has always dreamed of. But is Jonathan’s past real or are his memories the product of a deeply troubled mind? The closer Brendan gets to the truth, the more he realises that all is not what it seems with Jonathan Doe.
The Butterfly State
Wrong place, wrong time or could a ten year girl be guilty of murder?
The Butterfly State is the story of a County Wicklow family whose lives are forever altered when their violent, alcoholic father is murdered by the lakeshore near their home.
Tess, his eleven year old autistic daughter is charged with the murder, having been found standing over the body with the murder weapon in her hand.
Tess is sent to an institution for ten years and her sibling’s lives are equally ruined. Her sister’s engagement is off. Her older brother sinks into alcoholism while her younger, more severely autistic brother is left in the reluctant care of the two older siblings.
Tess’s return home opens old wounds and brings about a chain of events that reveals what really happened at the lake. Tess’s return culminates in salvation for her sister while her brother spirals further into self destruction, believing that she is secretly planning his downfall.
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