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by Anne Griffin
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Thomas Dunne Books
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A tale of a single night. The story of a lifetime.
If you had to pick five people to sum up your life, who would they be? If you were to raise a glass to each of them, what would you say? And what would you learn about yourself, when all is said and done?
This is the story of Maurice Hannigan, who, over the course of a Saturday night in June, orders five different drinks at the Rainford House Hotel. With each he toasts a person vital to him: his doomed older brother, his troubled sister-in-law, his daughter of fifteen minutes, his son far off in America, and his late, lamented wife. And through these people, the ones who left him behind, he tells the story of his own life, with all its regrets and feuds, loves and triumphs.
If you had to pick five people to sum up your life, who would they be? If you were to raise a glass to each of them, what would you say? And what would you learn about yourself, when all is said and done?
This is the story of Maurice Hannigan, who, over the course of a Saturday night in June, orders five different drinks at the Rainford House Hotel. With each he toasts a person vital to him: his doomed older brother, his troubled sister-in-law, his daughter of fifteen minutes, his son far off in America, and his late, lamented wife. And through these people, the ones who left him behind, he tells the story of his own life, with all its regrets and feuds, loves and triumphs.
I’m here to remember -- all that I have been and all that I will never be again.
Please, oh please let this debut novel soon be a first and not a debut. THIS.BOOK.
READ.THIS.BOOK. Voted best book club conversation starter of 2019!
Pull up a bar stool and listen as Maurice toast five people in his life. Sad, happy, nostalgic, uplifting, heartbreaking and will make you contemplate your top five people to toast at the end of you r life.
I thought of my dad a lot with this one.
And cried like a baby.
It’s a slow-burner. An experience not an adventure. So take it in.
READ.THIS.BOOK. Voted best book club conversation starter of 2019!
Pull up a bar stool and listen as Maurice toast five people in his life. Sad, happy, nostalgic, uplifting, heartbreaking and will make you contemplate your top five people to toast at the end of you r life.
I thought of my dad a lot with this one.
And cried like a baby.
It’s a slow-burner. An experience not an adventure. So take it in.
