The Granny by Brendan O'Carroll
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Book Reviews of The Granny
Book Review: THE DEAREST OF FRIENDS
Summary: 4 Stars
With a mingling of joy and sorrow, I have completed the gift of Brendan O'Carroll's trilogy of the Agnes Browne family. I wish these books could go on forever, they are that lovely."The Granny" is steeped in beautiful sentiment that is this family. The lives of the Browne brood as adults are examined, winding the reader down many streets of promises, with painful detours along the journey. The telling of their tales is vintage O'Carroll, rich with humor, drama, and the fragile aspects of life that makes it honest.
Give yourself a wonderous treat and buy the trilogy. Like me, you will become enthralled with this family, marred by flaws, detoured by mistakes, but enduringly loving. I adored these books, and can only hope Brendan O'Carroll will take pity on his fans and write more sequels!!!
Book Review: The Granny
Summary: 4 Stars
Brendan O'Carroll's The Granny is the conclusion of the Agnes Browne books and continues it's wonderful tradition of laughter and pain. This will have you laughing along with the spunky Browne Family, whose deadpan humor navigates them through their poverty. This light hearted if not at times tragic novel will have reader laughing, crying and marveling at the strength of friendship and family.
Book Review: a nice book
Summary: 4 Stars
Well I pretty much read the book at one sitting, and I cried in the end. It's an engrossing book but not quite as funny/heartwarming as Roddy Doyle's The Barrytown Trilogy. I didn't quite like the way how nicely O'Carroll put everything together, there are just so many 'coincidences' that make the 'twists' kind of unreal/phoney.Book Review: Good, But Not As Good as "The Mammy"
Summary: 3 Stars
THE GRANNY marks the end of Brendan O'Carroll's trilogy that started with the stellar lead novel, THE MAMMY, and bridged with the fair to in-the-middling THE CHISELLERS. I heartily recommend the lead-off book of this slice-of-Irish life series because stand-up comic O'Carroll pulls out all the stops (OK, most of them) and the humor is, at times, stop and laugh-out-loud funny -- a rarity, as any humor-loving reader can tell you.
This book, along with the middle one, has a few funny moments, too, but they're not quite as often or as strong as with the first. Instead, O'Carroll gets caught up in an Irish soap opera of sorts as he covers the fortunes and misfortunes of "All Agnes' Children." Alas, there are many (children, I mean) and O'Carroll is forced to cover a lot of ground in a few pages, making things a bit thin at times.
Still, the plot is good fun and the character of Agnes Browne is irresistibly irreverent. If you don't have time for the trilogy but have an interest in earthy, Irish humor, treat yourself at the very least to THE MAMMY.