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Peter Cunningham

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Born

Waterford, Ireland

Website

http://petercunninghambooks.com

Genre

Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Ebooks

Influences

Remembrance of Times Past by Marcel Proust

Member Since

May 2013

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Peter Cunningham is an award winning Irish novelist.

He is best known for the historical novels The Sea And The Silence, Tapes Of The River Delta, Consequences Of The Heart and Love In One Edition, which chronicle the lives of local families during the twentieth century, in Monument, the fictional version of Waterford in south-east Ireland, where Cunningham grew up.

His novel, The Taoiseach, which was based on the life of former Irish Taoiseach (prime minister) Charles J. Haughey was a controversial bestseller.

Capital Sins, a satirical novel, dealt with the collapse of the Irish economy during the financial crisis that began in 2008.

Cunningham’s work has attracted a significant amount of critical attention and praise. The Sea And The Silen ...more

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Our Secret Threesome

Often, in the long reaches of the night, I hear the two women in my life breathing. My wife’s sweet rhythm tides her through these nocturnal passages; but my mistress is less predictable. One night, she sighs in long slicks of even temperament; but on another, she is restless, or even terrifying, in her dark outrage. These tempestuous nights are when we all get on best, when passion pounds in our Read more of this blog post »

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Published on June 09, 2013 03:18 • Tags: ireland, irish-authors, the-atlantic-ocean, the-sea, the-sea-and-the-silence

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Average rating: 3.6 · 982 ratings · 155 reviews · 8 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Sea and the Silence 3.61 avg rating — 612 ratings — published 2009 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Trout 3.78 avg rating — 282 ratings — published 2016 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Acts of Allegiance 3.65 avg rating — 138 ratings — published 2017 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Taoiseach 3.88 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 2004 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Consequences of the Heart 3.05 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 1998 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Capital Sins 3.55 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tapes of the River Delta liked it 3.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1995 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Love in One Edition did not like it 1.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2001 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“What I was caught up in, I dimly understood, was the embodiment of history”
― Peter Cunningham, The Sea and the Silence

tags: anglo-irish, historical-fiction, the-sea-and-the-silence

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