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The Colony | Audrey Magee
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Pickpick

On its surface, this is a book about a self-centered English painter mining an Irish island for his own purposes. At deeper depths, it‘s an exploration of colonialism and relations between colonizing nations. I thought it was fascinating.

sarahbarnes Agree. Great review. 5mo
squirrelbrain I loved this! ❤️ 5mo
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AnneCecilie
The Colony | Audrey Magee
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Eggs Perfect 👍🏼 6mo
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Gleefulreader
The Colony | Audrey Magee
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Pickpick

A quiet but challenging book. Two foreigners - a French linguist and an English painter - arrive on a very small Irish-speaking Irish island in the 1970s, each with their own agenda. The story of the island is interspersed with matter of fact paragraphs of incidents from the Troubles. Asks questions about the impact and demands of foreigners on a small community, and how those butt up against the community‘s own needs and desires.

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JillR
The Colony | Audrey Magee
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An English artist comes to an Irish island in the midst of the Troubles. A Frenchman arrives to study the Irish language. You‘re drawn into their work and also the lives of the islanders on whom they are reliant, and whose lives they are wilfully upturning. Each chapter is interspersed with brief details of the violence on the mainland which slowly infiltrates the lives of the islanders. Lovely, sobering, witty and heartbreaking in equal measure👇

JillR (Litsy, I really needed a bigger character allowance for this review! 😆) carrying on! This was refreshingly unusual writing - very readable, then drifting into a stream of consciousness which amazingly didn‘t put me off. I fell hard for sweet islander James; fifteen and desperate for a life elsewhere. 1y
squirrelbrain I loved this one! 1y
TrishB Great review 😁 I loved this one too. 1y
JillR @trishb @squirrelbrain I went in not sure if it would be for me, loved it! 1y
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JuniperWilde
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My read -
Just started this one and am looking forward to the lyrical writing and historical information.

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Anna40
Colony | Audrey Magee
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Pickpick

Set in the 1970s on an isolated island in Ireland an English artist, Mr Lloyd, and a French linguist, JP, spend a summer living within the small island community. Both are exploiting the islanders in different ways. Told mainly through dialogues, inner thoughts of the characters and brief news summaries of killings in Northern Ireland, the novel explores colonialism, language, art and the Troubles.

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anushareflects
The Colony | Audrey Magee
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Pickpick

A very well written tale bringing forth themes of neocolonialism, indigenous cultures, and the loss/ negotiations of language and culture. The story is slow but beautifully, sensitively written. Characters are well fleshed out. Narration was great on Audible.

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Megabooks
The Colony | Audrey Magee
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A strange collage to celebrate a wonderful gift! Thank you @BarbaraBB !! The lovely wrapping matched Molly‘s new Spring harness. 😁🌈 (She wasn‘t sold on it yet because I got a different size this time. No lady likes to hear she‘s gone up a size. 😉) I am super excited for both these books!! The Colony has sat in my Amazon cart for months waiting for a price drop. 💕💕💕

BarbaraBB The colors really match!! I am glad the books reached you. I hope you haven‘t read The Burgess Boys yet. If not, I‘m pretty sure you‘ll love both 🤍 2y
TrishB Loved The Colony. 2y
Cinfhen Loved both these books! And that‘s a crazy color match between Miss Molly & the gift wrap 🌈 2y
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Suet624 You've hit the jackpot with those two reads. 2y
Chelsea.Poole Loved The Colony thanks to @TheKidUpstairs 2y
Megabooks @BarbaraBB I have not read the Strout yet, and I love this edition because the font is larger than her US edition paperbacks, so I am VERY excited about that! 2y
Megabooks @Cinfhen @BarbaraBB I am in love with this harness! The straps in the back and the matching leash are also striped. Just so cute and springy! 2y
Megabooks @Suet624 I have for sure! 2y
Megabooks @TrishB @Chelsea.Poole I‘m going to try to get to it this month! 🤞🏻🤞🏻 2y
BarbaraBB @Megabooks I am glad you haven‘t read the Strout yet. It is not Lucy but I really really loved this one. 2y
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TrishB
The Colony | Audrey Magee
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That was my Sunday sorted then. What a fabulous read. So many interlinking themes and the political interjection through out. Some amazing characters and some thoroughly despicable ones.
A fantastic read ❤️

squirrelbrain Glad you loved it! ❤️ 2y
Tamra 💕 2y
jlhammar Agreed - such a great book! 2y
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BarbaraBB Such a great book. Happy you thought so too! 2y
Lindy This was one of my top reads of 2022. ❤️ 2y
TrishB @squirrelbrain @Tamra @jlhammar @BarbaraBB @Lindy this one will definitely stay with me! 2y
sarahbarnes Glad you loved it. 2y
Cathythoughts Great review 👍🏻❤️ 2y
Freespirit I really enjoyed this one too Trish 2y
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TrishB
The Colony | Audrey Magee
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Quiet Sunday morning read.

Cathythoughts Must get to this one. Enjoy your quiet Sunday morning read , nothing like it 💫 2y
rockpools I‘ve heard such great things about this one! 2y
squirrelbrain It‘s a good one for a quiet Sunday morning read! ❤️ 2y
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TrishB @Cathythoughts @rockpools @squirrelbrain I‘ve managed to get 150 pages in before anyone got up! They disturbing me now of course 😁 it‘s great so far. 2y
Tamra I loved this one! Quiet is the perfect backdrop for it. 😌 2y
Tamra @rockpools it is so good! 2y
Suet624 I really liked this one. 2y
TrishB @Tamra @Suet624 just finished and I loved it ♥️ 2y
Tamra @TrishB 👏🏾👏🏾 2y
Suet624 Yes!!! 2y
Chelsea.Poole Love this one! 2y
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