Alison is an ordinary 38-year-old Dublin wife and mother; tolerably
happy, grateful for good health, three much-loved kids and a
peaceful marriage. Every year the family stays at Fitzgerald's
Hotel for Easter; a friendly sort of place, where parents can get
some well-earned rest while the children are safely entertained.
But the familiar idyll is broken when husband Peadar is called back
to town to deal with a work crisis and Alison encounters Chris, an
old flame from her youth. Understated, subtle and sensitive,
Temptation might just as easily be called 'Redemption'. Chris is in
the throes of a horrific tragedy which has poisoned his own system
with guilt and given him a death-wish. Something about him fills
Alison with fear while she strives to protect her children from
real and imagined dangers; night terrors, changing room
paedophiles, meningitis symptoms which turn out to be tonsillitis.
Finally, doubts about her marriage and her lifestyle begin to
surface, but the temptation she experiences isn't wholly sexual.
Both Alison and Chris are tempted to run from the past rather than
confront it, to avoid pain rather than accept and transcend it.
Only when they address their unfinished emotional business can
either really go on with their lives; only when Chris is ready to
accept love can his sense of guilt be redeemed. (Kirkus UK)
A marriage and a family reach breaking point on an annual holiday
in the loveliest hotel in Ireland. Dermot Bolger is one of the
leading figures on the Irish literary scene. Very influential,
amazingly energetic and prolific, popular and extremely well
respected. Dermot writes fast-paced, incredibly readable novels,
usually with a thriller element, always about Ireland, more often
than not about its Troubles. 'Temptation' is quite different. It is
about family life. It describes five days in the lives of Alison,
her husband Peadar and their three children, who are taking their
annual holiday on the southeastern coast of Ireland. Each member of
the family has his or her own hopes for the holiday and
preoccupations about the lives they are briefly leaving behind. The
holiday serves as a turning point in their lives, as Alison and
Peadar's marriage is put to the test and the vulnerabilities of
their children are brought to the fore. Previous novels have always
featured a female central character, and Dermot seems to love
writing from a female perspective - and very good he is at it too.
This new novel takes this strength and makes the most of it.
Paciness and great readability are packed in there too.
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