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The novelist has ditched his crime pseudonym for new thriller ‘April in Spain’, the follow-up to ‘Snow’, but he hasn’t thawed out just yet.
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...
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Oct 4, 2021 · There was a fleeting reference to Quirke in Snow, and Strafford himself pops up in April in Spain, meaning a less reverent reviewer than myself might hint at the creation of a Banville-verse.
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.
Nov 4, 2021 · “I read very little new fiction these days, to my shame and regret,” says the author John Banville, whose latest novel is “April in Spain.” “So much of it seems to me mere prattle.
Oct 21, 2021 · Banville’s latest, April in Spain, which continues the narrative arcs of both Snow and Black’s Elegy for April (but doesn’t assume that readers will be familiar with either novel), cements ...
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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.