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A review by jmatkinson1
The Glorious Guinness Girls by Emily Hourican
3.0
For poor relation Fliss, the opportunity to go live with the Guinness family means she can get away from home, get an education and move on. Her beloved elder brother Hugh is away at school and Fliss grows up at the heart of a rich family. The Irish are in revolt and Hugh is in sympathy but when he disappears after a party Fliss just believes he has emigrated. Later she becomes an onlooker as the family moves to London and the three girls join the wild society of the Bright Young Things.
I wasn't sure what to make of the structure of this book. At first it jumped between the present day and the past but that model seemed to disappear after a while and everything was about the 1920s. The effects on the Anglo-Irish or the uprisings in Ireland were actually interesting but the rest just seemed to drag a little.
I wasn't sure what to make of the structure of this book. At first it jumped between the present day and the past but that model seemed to disappear after a while and everything was about the 1920s. The effects on the Anglo-Irish or the uprisings in Ireland were actually interesting but the rest just seemed to drag a little.