TRANSITION YEAR EXTENDED ESSAY LIBRARY SUGGESTIONS September 2014 RELATIONSHIPS Crow Lake (family, Canada) Atonement (family, England, WW2) The Gathering (family, Ireland) Housekeeping (orphans, aunt) Nothing holds back the night (mother/daughter) Why be happy when you can be normal (non-fic, mother/daughter) Oranges are not the only fruit (mother/daughter) The Glass Castle (non-fic, daughter/parents) A boy called It (non-fic, mother/son) Amongst Women (father/daughters, Ireland) The Spider Truces (father-son, bereavement) The Spinning Heart (father and son) Tinkers (father and son) The Twin (father and son) Gilead (father/son) A Fraction of the Whole (father/son Australia) Out Stealing Horses (father and son, Norway) The Radetzky March (Austro-Hung. empire, 3 generations) Revolutionary Road (marriage USA) The Marriage plot (US college and after) The Story of a Marriage (marriage USA) Private Life (marriage, USA) The Sportswriter (bereavement, marriage breakdown) Mrs Hemingway (Hemingway, marriage) The Paris Wife (Hemingway, marriage) The Old Man and the Sea The Pearl Poet’s Wives (marriage, Blake, Mandelstam, Irish) The Great Gatsby Lolita On Chesil Beach (marriage) Stoner (marriage) Love in the time of Cholera (marriage, S America) Beware of Pity (Ill-advised marriage, Austro-Hung. ) Embers (rivalry, love, Austro-Hung.) Breath (friends, rivalry, Australia) The Girl with the Pearl Earring (artist and model) The Girl from the Chartreuse (France) City of Bohane (rivalry) The Heart is a lonely hunter (solitary people USA) Rebecca The Chateau (non-fic, Americans in post WW1 France) An Act of Love (non-fic, Irish MS sufferer, right to die) The Perks of being a wallflower (JF, USA teen) No and Me (JF, French, friendship with runaway) LOVE/ROMANCE One Day
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Mary Lawson Ian McEwan Anne Enright Marilynne Robinson Delphine de Vigane Jeanette Winterson Jeanette Winterson Jeanette Walls Dave Pelzer John McGahern Tom Connolly Donal Ryan Paul Harding Gerbrand Bakker Marilynne Robinson Steve Toltz Per Petterson Joseph Roth Richard Yates Jeffrey Eugenides Andrew Greer Jane Smiley Richard Ford Naomi Wood Paula McLain Ernest Hemingway John Steinbeck David Park F. Scott Fitzgerald Vladimir Nabokov Ian McEwan John Williams Gabriel Garcia Marquez Stephan Zweig Sandor Marai Tim Winton Tracy Chevalier Pierre Peju Kevin Barry Carson McCullers Daphne du Maurier William Maxwell Marie Fleming Stephen Chbosky Delphine de Vigane