All the Bad Apples

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The day after the funeral all our mourning clothes hung out on the line like sleeping bats This will be really embarrassing, I kept saying to my family, when she shows up at the door in a week or two When Deena s wild and mysterious sister Mandy disappears presumed dead her family are heartbroken But Mandy has always been troubled It s just another bad thing to happen to Deena s family Only Deena refuses to believe it s true.And then the letters start arriving Letters from Mandy, claiming that their family s blighted history is not just bad luck or bad decisions but a curse, handed down through the generations Mandy has gone in search of the curse s roots, and now Deena must find her What they find will heal their family s rotten past or rip it apart forever. New Download [ All the Bad Apples ] by [ Moïra Fowley-Doyle ] For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr A BOOK about FAMILY CURSE,WITCHES, BANSHEES, GHOSTS washed with magical realism, mysterious historical journey to the family ancestors stories repeated itself like living in the same Groundhog Day, taken place IN IRELAND and lots of tasty, juicy apples give you cravings What am I waiting for GIVING WITHOUT THINKING MY 5 BILLION STARS My vocabulary was limited to express how I loved this book so much because this isthan a mythological, mystical, mysterious, gothic, folkloric adventure A BOOK about FAMILY CURSE,WITCHES, BANSHEES, GHOSTS washed with magical realism, mysterious historical journey to the family ancestors stories repeated itself like living in the same Groundhog Day, taken place IN IRELAND and lo...Unputdownable This is full of inherited rage, inherited silence, inherited stigma, and so muchIt s about a past that is only escapable if someone finally dares to speak it out loud It s a horrifying masterpiece that demands to look centuries of trauma i...I m sitting here just trying togather myself after this incredibly hard hitting powerful story This was deeply, deeply moving Like I was nearly choking on rage tears at the end there inwardly because it s so deeply about feminism, about the history of abuse and cruelty and discrimination that queer people and women have suffered forever I m seriousI was so gobsmacked This book WENT for it And holy shit, it nailed the topic this is no light readIt s beautifully written and framed I m sitting here just trying togather myself after this incredibly hard hitting powerful story This was deeply, deeply moving Like I was nearly choking on rage tears at the end there inwardly because it s so deeply about feminism, about the history of abuse and cruelty and discrimination that queer people and women have suffered forever I m seriousI was so gobsmacked This book WENT for it And holy shit, it nailed the topic this is no light readIt s beautifully written and framed in soft words I really love the author s style and I was obsessed with The Accident Season back in 2015 , but I was just here thinking it would be about a girl finding her missing sister after they failed to be good enough for their strict family BUT It s much muchthan that.For starters, Deena is 17 but her older twin sisters are in their 30s Their mother is dead, father is horrible and absent, basically only returns to make sure they re being good enough He s very religious too Then Mandy goes missi...Break the stigma break the curse An absolutely enchanting feminist tale I was so enthralled by this story, I could not put it down As Deena begins to unravel the mysteries of her family tree whilst on a search to find her sister, Mandy, assumed dead, I was completely swept up in their family lore I ...Idk anything about this book BUT i m willing to read this book just because of the cover,,,, hOW CAN A PERSON BE THIS BEAUTIFUL I WILL NEVER UNDERSTANDThere are tears in the landscape Pinpricks in the map Pain stays on in a place like this In true Moira Fowley Doyle fashion this is a stunningly written novel about women, sisters, family, friends, and about the length we go to for love It s queer, it s diverse, it s witchy, and there are mother f ing harpies It s spooky, it s feminist and it s about the strength and resilience of women in the face of their greatest historical threat menThe curse isn t on our family, it s on everyThere are tears in the landscape Pinpricks in the map Pain stays on in a place like this In true Moira Fowley Doyle fashion this is a stunningly written novel about women, sisters, family, friends, and about the length we go to for love It s queer, it s diverse, it s witchy, and there are mother f ing harpies It s spooky, it s feminist and it s about the strength and resilience of women in the face of their greatest historical threat menThe curse isn t on our family, it s on every woman in this c... This is what a curse does It takes a truth and twists it It punishes those who don t conform.ALL THE BAD APPLES is, to quote the author, a story that was, in part, fueled by rage I don t want to veer away from the specific history she s shed light on but for anyone who has looked around, confused and shocked and angry, about some of the abortion bills trying to be passed in the US You ll want to read this book Because Ireland had been living that life up until 2018 That s the problem This is what a curse does It takes a truth and twists it It punishes those who don t conform.ALL THE BAD APPLES is, to quote the author, a story that was, in part, fueled by rage I don t want to veer away from the specific history she s shed light on but for anyone who has looked around, confused and shocked and angry, about some of the abortion bills trying to be passed in the US You ll want to read this book Because Ireland had been living that life up until 2018 That s the problem with having a funeral for your sister without really knowing whether she s dead Without a body in the coffin, how can you be sure she won t come back Overwhelmingly, this book is a very Fowley Doyle story If you ve read her before, you ll kn...ARC provided via Edelweiss in exchange for an honest reviewI fucking love this book It s easily one of my favourite reads of 2019 All the Bad Apples follows Deena, who undertakes a quest to find her missing older sister when she vanishes on her seventeenth birthday apparently in response to the Rys family curse The curse falls on the bad apples of the family Those who cannot be nice, normal girls The ones who have sex outside of marriage or who desire other women or act in any other ARC provided via Edelweiss in exchange for an honest reviewI fucking love this book It s easily one of my favourite reads of 2019 All the Bad Apples follows Deena, who undertakes a quest to find her missing older sister when she vanishes on her seve... All the Bad Apples has everything you should expect from a Mo ra Fowley Doyle novel beautiful atmosphere, blurred lines between the magical and the ordinary, and queer characters At the same time, it s so much darker and angrier than usual.This felt like the bookish equivalent of a scream.You might think this is a story about a lesbian who has a very traditional catholic father and who is grappling with the consequences of her older sister s disappearance and what might be a family curse, All the Bad Apples has everything you should expect from a Mo ra Fowley Doyle novel beautiful atmosphere, blurred lines between the magical and the ordinary, and queer characters At the same time, it s so much darker and angrier than usual.This felt like the bookish equivalent of a scream.You might think this is a story about a lesbian who has a very traditional catholic father and who is grappling with the consequences of her older sister s disappearance and what might be a family curse, discovering her family s history in the process It is, and yet it s not ...4.5 5 ahhhh wow

All the Bad Apples
  • English
  • 04 July 2019
  • Hardcover
  • 320 pages
  • 052555274X
  • Moïra Fowley-Doyle
  • All the Bad Apples