The Apple Tart of Hope by Moore Fitzgerald, Sarah (2015) Paperback

by Sarah Moore Fitzgerald

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About the author

Sarah Moore Fitzgerald is a novelist and professor. She's part of the creative writing team that delivers UL’s MA in Creative Writing, founder of UL’s Creative Writing Winter School for mid-career writers and the author of seven novels including The Apple Tart of Hope, All the Money in the World and The Shark and The Scar. Her work has been adapted for the stage, translated into over 20 different languages and shortlisted for several awards (including the Waterstones children's book Prize, Children's Books Ireland book of the year and the Irish Book Awards). She's a recent winner of the London Magazine's Prize for short fiction.

Reviews

[Carmen French · Rating 3 out of 5]

It was a slow start but it soon sped up. I did find that the use of creative and complex metaphors sometimes didn’t quite match the voice of the speaker. This is a recognition of Fitzgerald’s creative and sometimes poetic but it appeared to lose the fact that the characters were teenagers.

Overall, it was an enjoyable book, and made me crave apple tart.