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He wrote April in Spain on a laptop, rather than in longhand, using his trusty fountain pen, adding deadpan: “That does mean there will be no manuscripts to sell.”
Oct 4, 2021 · April in Spain: John Banville's new thriller reviewed. It's late spring in San Sebastian, there is music in the air, sunbathers on the beaches and Quirke is on his holidays.
Sep 22, 2021 · On holiday in northern Spain with his new wife and if not off the drink, at least in control of it, he comes upon a hospital doctor who is, he thinks, a girl called April Latimer who disappeared...
- Allan Massie
Oct 5, 2021 · Meanwhile, in Donostia in the Basque region of Spain, a semihappy couple named Quirke and Evelyn are visiting for an April holiday. He’s an Irish pathologist—hero of earlier mysteries Banville published under the name Benjamin Black—and she’s an Austrian psychiatrist who survived the Holocaust.
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Oct 5, 2021 · His latest novel, April in Spain, is another absorbing and fascinating mystery that finds Irish pathologist, Dr Quirke, on holiday with his wife in sun-drenched and atmospheric Spain. He thinks he recognises a young Irish woman that was presumed dead.
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Nov 5, 2021 · April in Spain reverts to Quirke as the central character and Strafford in a minor role. Tension is built on a very slow but enthralling burn. The action is set some years after that of Snow. Quirke is on holiday with his wife, Evelyn, in the Basque country on Spain’s Atlantic coast.
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Oct 19, 2021 · What I didn’t know, though, was that April in Spain is in fact the eighth of Banville’s Quirke novels. This series, set in 1950s Dublin, features the eponymous gloomy, troubled pathologist who, Banville has said, came from ‘the damaged recesses of my Irish soul.