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This meticulously observant second novel from Conlon alternates between epistolary chapters and narratives in the first or third person ... Conlon writes with sane, sober wit; her lucid prose is pithy without falling into epigrams. -Publishers Weekly Engaging and bursting with untrammelled humanity. -Irish Independent One of Ireland's most distinctive and energetic voices ... A Glassful of Letters is both warm and intelligent.' -Feminist Bookstore News Conlon's characters are decidedly average and 'normal', yet through them she disrupts this apparently calm untroubled surface to pose some very complex questions. The role of the family, of men and women within it, desire and need, is the focal point for the novelist. She succeeds in delivering a highly vibrant, contemporary perspective and has struck a seam of complexities and contradictions buried within the apparently mundane. -Irish Studies Review (Charles University, Prague). .. .funny and hopeful, sometimes despairing, in the manner of Kate Chopin's The Awakening ... Told by means of letters interwoven with the perceptive comments ... Quietly passionate, the novel is romantic but no stock romance. Rather, Conlon unfolds the seemingly simple psyche of an ordinary married woman to display a rich and complex intellectual and emotional life. -Bonnie Johnston, Booklist

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Evelyn Conlon is one of Ireland's most esteemed and best-loved writers. As well as a novelist she is a short-story writer and occasional essayist. Born in Ireland, she lived for a number of years in Australia and travelled extensively there and in Asia. She has edited four anthologies including Cutting the Night in Two. She has been writer in residence in numerous places, including Dublin City Libraries, University College Dublin, Jerusalem, and St. Paul, Minnesota. Skin of Dreams was shortlisted for Irish Novel of the Year; the title story of her collection Taking Scarlet as a Real Colour was performed at the Edinburgh Theatre Festival. Her novel Not the Same Sky was published by Wakefield Press, Australia in 2013. She has published four novels and three collections of short stories, has been widely anthologised, and her works have been translated into many languages including Tamil and Chinese. She is a member of Aosdána, an association of Ireland's most important and respected artists, and lives in Dublin.

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