Pre-Owned Elegy for April (Hardcover) 9780805090918

from KateVane

This book is beautifully written. It evokes the fog-enveloped gloom of 1950s Dublin. It provides insights into the claustrophobic world of the city's middle class. But nothing happens. Phoebe thinks her friend April may have disappeared but April always was a bit of a wild one. Phoebe talks about...

from etoiline

I was hoping for a little more in this novel, coming from a best-selling author and being the 3rd in a series. It was an interesting story, but it moved pretty slowly--the plot twist didn't show up until the very end, and the major question of the book--where is April?--isn't actually answered, a...

from PipTulip

This book is set in Dublin, Ireland in the 1950's. A girl, April, goes missing and her close friend, Phoebe, does everything to find her. Including talking to her family and enlisted her own father to help. This is a dark book part mystery part thriller and part romance. It took forever to read t...

from EllenH

This early reviewers copy was somewhat out of my general line of reading, but an interesting read. Quirke- the erratic, alchoholic, Dublin pathologist is a well developed character, more so than his daughter Phoebe, and her odd friends, & much more than her missing friend April Lavery. It was dis...

from icolford

Anything John Banville writes is worth our attention and Elegy for April, the fourth novel published under the pen name Benjamin Black, satisfies on many levels. Ostensibly a who-done-it, the book features a cast of indelibly drawn characters led by troubled pathologist Quirke, who at the behest ...