The Tears of God - O'Farrell, Lise
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The book is about secrets, and the tragedies they cause. The story is woven from three strands: the Fuchsia plant, an old diary, and autism. Teresa explores an abandoned cottage and finds the diary. She moves the beautiful Fuchsia to her own garden. Her son Eoin, who has Asberger's Syndrome, fixates on it. Little by little, the full story behind the diary comes out, and at the same time another devastating secret appears, closer to home. (The Irish language name for the Fuchsia means "Tears of God".)

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Produktbeschreibung
The book is about secrets, and the tragedies they cause. The story is woven from three strands: the Fuchsia plant, an old diary, and autism. Teresa explores an abandoned cottage and finds the diary. She moves the beautiful Fuchsia to her own garden. Her son Eoin, who has Asberger's Syndrome, fixates on it. Little by little, the full story behind the diary comes out, and at the same time another devastating secret appears, closer to home. (The Irish language name for the Fuchsia means "Tears of God".)
Autorenporträt
Lise O'Farrell comes originally from Seychelles, then a British colony in the Indian Ocean. Her ancestors were French colonial settlers, who left France before the Revolution. After O-levels and a two-year stint in the Civil Service, she returned to education, completed A-levels and won a scholarship to Brown University, in Providence, Rhode Island where she met her Irish husband. She majored in English and French literature, qualified as a Secondary teacher and taught in a public school. She moved to Los Angeles for two years and then to Ireland, where she raised three children and engaged in many voluntary activities, among them organising adult daytime education. Nowadays, she continues her voluntary work, enjoys her seven grandchildren, and for recreation engages in choral singing, walking and gardening. She has been writing for years but latterly has given it more time. In 2003 one of her short stories, Boy, was shortlisted for The Hennessy Prize. In 2015 her second novel The Tears of God made the Long List in the Writers Centre Novel Fair. Her website is at https://www.logicpress.ie/authors/liseofarrell