A History of Loneliness (Hardcover) by John Boyne

from nyiper

The audio for this was terrific and, for me, essential! I'm not sure I would have appreciated this nearly as much, or even finished it, if I had tried to read it. The voice of Father Odran Yates is wonderfully spoken by Gerard Doyle. Peeling back just some of the layers of the Catholic church to ...

from ozzer

Father Odran Yates narrates John Boynes' scathing condemnation of the Catholic Church's cover-up of sexual abuse of children by its Irish priests. As the novel progresses, Yates' reliability as a narrator becomes increasingly suspect. The reader comes to realize that he is unsuited for the priest...

from TimBazzett

A HISTORY OF LONELINESS seems an apt title for a book with a priest as the narrator, for I have often thought that a priest's life must necessarily be one of the loneliest imaginable. So there's that. But author John Boyne gives us so much more in this novel of Ireland and the Catholic Church tha...

from BookConcierge

Book on CD performed by Gerald Boyle Father Odran Yates has spent thirty years as a teacher and librarian at a boys' school. He has no real ambition to rise in the ranks of the Church. Although he excelled academically and even served a year in Rome as the Pope's night attendant, he has been con...

from runner56

The events unfolding over the last five years concerning sexual abuse has seen the emergence of a bitter and enraged public calling for justice to be seen to be done and to be done with immediate effect. What has made this all the more shocking is the naming of celebrities who were to many of us ...