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“Since the comparison to Angela’s Ashes is inevitable it should be met head on. This is the better book. It is truer, sharper and subtler…it is a more universal story” - San Francisco Chronicle
* SHORTLISTED FOR THE IRISH TIMES NON-FICTION LITERATURE AWARD *
*** A IRISH TIMES BESTSELLER ***
'I loved the oul wans and the oul fellas. I loved the statues and the buildings and the shops. I loved Dublin. I loved everything about Dublin. If Dublin was a woman I'd marry her'
Snow is falling all over Dublin. It's half an hour to the start of the New Year. On the rooftop of 44 Seville Place a ten year old boy clings to the steel pole of a television aerial. His father urges him to turn the aerial towards England. The boy reaches up and, in that moment, pictures from a foreign place beam into their home and changes their lives for ever.
Thus begins an astonishing portrait of a Dublin family as they chart their way through the turbulent waters of the 1960's. From the first page we are drawn into their lives and their relationships. We exult in their triumphs and we cry at their disasters, but at no time is laughter far from the surface. By the book's close we are part of this extended family.
Peter Sheridan has written an astonishing book which conjures Dublin for the reader with remarkable intimacy. As he makes his journey from boy to man and in exploring his past with such honesty and compassion he reveals the confused adolescent in us all.
“You’ll rejoice in this wild song of a book. I could sing his praises ‘till Doomsday” - Frank McCourt
| Territory | Publisher/Agent |
|---|---|
| World | Darley Anderson Agency |
| UK & Commonwealth | Macmillan |
| US | Viking / Penguin |
| Denmark | Munksgaard |
| Finland | WSOY |
| France | Lattes |
| Germany | Econ |
| Greece | Kedros |
| Italy | Mondadori |
| The Netherlands | Anthos |
| Portugal | Edicios Asa |
| Spain | Espasa |
| Sweden | Forum |
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When Peter Sheridan’s father died unexpectedly while marking out the racing results, the loss devastated his close knit family who swiftly returned to Dublin to ease their mother’s grief and give their father a rousing send off.
But it soon became apparent that an awkward situation would have to be resolved. For ver forty seven years, Peter’s father had maintained a relationship – mainly on paper – with another woman, Doris. She first met him in the 1940’s as a naïve young woman on a railway platform and determinedly kept up a correspondence that would span five decades, secretly hoping against hope that eventually Peter’s father would be hers. Doris would need to be told about the death of her old friend.
Peter Sheridan has written a moving account of his parent’s relationship, from their first encounter over a poker game in a Dundalk canteen to their final happy days together in retirement. But he also tackles the difficult subject of Doris, a shadowy partner in their marriage, and a thorn in his mother’s side. Forty Seven Roses is a compelling memoir that deals with themes of everlasting love, family pride and the nurture of obsession, and is a powerful follow-up to Peter Sheridan’s highly acclaimed Dublin memoir, 44.
“Dublin has rarely come to life as it does in Peter Sheridan’s memoir. It has the breadth of great fiction and the truth of great autobiography. His prose is as rich as his characters, ordinary and fabulous, tragic and hilarious”
- Neil Jordan
| Territory | Publisher/Agent |
|---|---|
| World | Darley Anderson Agency |
| UK & Commonwealth | Macmillan |
| US | Penguin |
| Finland | WSOY |
| Germany | Econ |
| The Netherlands | Anthos |
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*** THE WONDERFUL FIRST NOVEL BY THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED AND BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF 44: A DUBLIN MEMOIR & 47 ROSES ***
Are you ready for Philo?
The nuns at the convent of the Good Shepherd in Dublin’s North Wall certainly aren’t. But on a quiet Sunday evening they find their peace shattered by an insistent knocking on the door – and there she is… “I feel like Julie Andrews in The Sound of Music,” she says. “I’ve nowhere else to go.”
Weighing in at 240 pounds and covered in tattoos, Philo doesn’t look much like Julie Andrews.
And with her penchant for smoking, swearing and eating, she’s hardly an ideal candidate for
the sisterhood. But Philo is desperate. She’s on the run from her husband, Tommo, and she needs refuge.
The good sisters take her under their wing and before long she finds a new self-confidence and a new role at the center of the beleaguered community. With a heart as big as her waistband, there’s plenty of love to go round, but Philo knows that, sooner or later, she will need to face up to the cracks in her own life – her wayward husband and son, and the dark secret she’s been running from for as long as she can remember…
“His prose is as rich as his characters, ordinary and fabulous, tragic and hilarious.”
- Neil Jordan, director of The Crying Game
“Sheridan’s prose style is Chekhov by way of Monty Python and Rabelais.”
- The New Yorker
| Territory | Publisher/Agent |
|---|---|
| World | Darley Anderson Agency |
| UK & Commonwealth | Macmillan |
| US | Viking/Penguin |
| France | Lattes |
| Germany | Ullstein Heyne |
| Italy | Newton & Compton |
| The Netherlands | Bzztoh |
| Serbia | Portalibris |
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