Venetia Kelly's Traveling Show (Hardcover) by Frank DeLaney

from Myckyee

I was offered Venetia Kelly's Traveling Show to review I was quite excited and felt I was in for a treat. I found the story to be refreshingly different. Set amid the politics of Ireland in the early twentieth century, the plot revolves around Ben McCarthy and his quest to bring his errant father...

from nnjmom

Venetia Kelly may be the title character of Frank Delaney's latest novel of historical Ireland, but the book is very much the story of Ben McCarthy, a coming-of-age story about a young man sent on a near impossible quest by his mother. Ben's father, a farmer, has become enthralled by an actress i...

from Cailin

I loved this book! This book tells a story by telling lots of other smaller stories and then bringing them all together in the end. The book follows Benedict "Ben" MacCarthy as he embarks on a Ulysses like quest to save his family. His father has been bewitched by Venetia Kelly and her Traveling ...

from corgiiman

This a wonderful book written by a superb storyteller. Much in the vain of "Ireland" also by Delaney, it tells a story of an Irish family caught in a plot during the 1932 National elections of Ireland. This book intertwines fiction with historical facts as well as telling the reader of Irish life...

from mckait

A wonderful story. Story being the key word. There are writers and there are story tellers. In my own opinion, a storyteller rises above most of the time. There were, after all story tellers long before there were authors. James Clare has a samll part in this tale, but being a story teller someho...