#bernard maclaverty

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MIDWINTER BREAK (2026) | LESLEY MANVILLE

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Lesley Manville & Ciarán Hinds in the film Midwinter Break. Watch the trailer: https://onfs.net/4oEmyoq

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Have you ever read a book that you loved so much that you're afraid of rereading it because it might not be as good as it is in your memories?

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VINTAGE IRISH CLASSICS

This year Vintage Classics are celebrating the best writers of Ireland from our Vintage list with this new set of five classic novels. It was fitting for the covers that we commission illustrators with Irish roots. Cal by Bernard MacLaverty – illustration by Eoin Ryan Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle – illustration by Oliver Jeffers The Green Road by Anne Enright – illustration by Niall McCormack Reading in the Dark by Seamus Deane – illustration by Steve Doogan Lies of Silence by Brian Moore – illustration by Martin O’Neill

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When I look at you I see all the ways you were.

Bernard MacLaverty - Midwinter Break

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He realized that he had said her name for the first time and it was like meat in his mouth.

Bernard Mac Laverty, Cal

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I finished Cal by Bernard Maclaverty and I still loved it... but I didn't find it as mindblowing as the first time I read it when I was 18 years old

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#onemannsmovies Film Review of "Midwinter Break". Acting royalty of Leslie Manville and Ciarán Hinds in a quiet, thoughtful, but slightly depressing marital drama. 3.5/5.

Midwinter Break (3.5*): Well-Made But Depressing Tale Of A Marriage in Crisis, But Thought-Provoking.