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But I have found it difficult to find anything positive to write. The best part of the The Marble Collector was reaching the end of it. Your email address will not be published. Notify me of follow-up comments by email. Cecelia Ahern. A forgotten childhood. A discovered life. What if you only had one day to find out who you really were? The familiar man she grew up with is suddenly a stranger to her.

An unexpected break in her monotonous daily routine leaves her just one day to unlock the secrets of the man she thought she knew. The story unfolds as Sabrina discovers a collection of marbles belonging to her father, Fergus Boggs. He has suffered a stroke and is now in a long term care facility. When Sabrina discovers that two of the most expensive collections are missing from the inventory of marbles, it sets off a chain of events that will lead her to question everything about her life.

It may sound like a simple enough plot, but there is nothing simple about this novel at all. The structure is well thought out and clever. Each chapter told by Fergus is titled with the name of a game of marbles, which also covers the theme of the chapter, and each chapter told by Sabrina is titled with a rule of the swimming pool.

The rule is taken from the list of pool rules at the nursing home, where she works as a lifeguard. The book begins with Fergus Boggs as a five year old child at school.

Following a vicious beating from Father Murphy for not understanding his Irish properly, he is locked in a dark room. A younger kind priest comes to see him in the dark room and gives him some marbles. The marbles represent goodness, but to Fergus they are initially objects to play with, which bring fun and competition into his young life. The marbles also bring him closer to his favourite older brother Hamish and his mother who totally out of character plays a game of marbles with him one day, and so the marbles become infinitely precious to him.

As he grows older, he uses them to compete, to gain respect and to distract him from the difficulties of living with a large and rather dysfunctional family.

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The Margaret Fulton Cookboo. My earliest memory is of my mum when I was three years old. We are in the kitchen, she picks up the teapot and launches it up at the ceiling. She holds it with two hands, one on the handle, one on the spout, and lobs it as though in a sheaf-toss competition, sending it up in the air where it cracks against the ceiling, and then falls straight back down to the table where it shatters into pieces, murky brown water and burst soggy teabags everywhere.

To my knowledge she never behaved like that again, which I imagine is precisely the reason that I remember it. The hairy-handed security guard goes through her shopping bag and retrieves a scarf with its price tags and a security tag still on it.

The memory is vivid despite even to this day everyone believing I made it up. I currently go to a dentist who I grew up with. We were never friends but we hung out in the same circles.

When he hovers above my open mouth, I see him as a fifteen-year-old pissing against the living room walls at a house party, shouting about Jesus being the original anarchist. It seems to me that when summoning up a person in my mind it is not the everyday person I think of, it is the more dramatic moments or the moments they showed a part of themselves that is usually hidden. My mother says that I have a knack for remembering what others forget.

I can only assume I remember these episodes because I have never behaved this way myself. I am always the same.

I think this is why I admire it so much in others and I remember what they choose to forget. Out of character? That part of us is present the whole time, lying dormant, just waiting for its moment to be revealed. Including me. I moved from Scotland with Mammy and my brothers, after Daddy died. It feels like a different place. The people look different too. Father Murphy stands over my desk and is tall and grey and wide.

I try looking around at the other boys to see their reactions but he lashes out at me. A backhanded slap. It hurts. I need to go to the toilet all of a sudden.

I have been hit before, but never by a priest. He is shouting angry Irish words. She likes to sit and cuddle. I like when she does that. She moved away from Ireland a long time ago to be a nanny to a family in Scotland and she met Daddy. They never spoke the Irish words there. The priest wants me to repeat the words after him but I can barely breathe.

I can barely get the words out of my mouth. As I stammer through the words he is telling everybody how stupid I am. My whole body is shaking. I feel sick. I need to go to the toilet. I tell him so. His face goes a purple colour and that is when the leather strap comes out.

He lashes my hand with leather, which I later learn has pennies sewn into the layers. I go right there and then. I expect the boys to laugh but nobody does. They keep their heads down. Then he pulls me out of the room, by my ear, and that hurts too, away from everyone, down the corridor, and he pushes me into a dark room.

The door bangs closed behind me and he leaves me alone. Mammy usually changes them for me. What do I do here? My eyes adjust to the darkness and the light that comes from under the door helps me to see. I see a ladder, and a bucket and a mop with no stick, just the head.

It smells rank. An old bicycle is hanging upside down, the chain missing. Nothing in here fits together. Will Mammy be looking for me? It feels like forever has passed. I close my eyes and sing to myself. The songs that Mammy sings with me. That would make him angrier. In this place, fun and laughing makes them angry. We are not here to be leaders, we are here to serve.

This is not what my daddy taught me, he said that I was a natural leader, that I can be anything I want to be.

I used to go hunting with him, he taught me everything, he even let me walk first, he said I was the leader. He sang a song about it. I sing the songs my daddy used to sing when I was allowed to stay up late and listen to the sing-songs. Until, that is, those shiny marbles mysteriously find their way back into the present.

As we alternate between father and daughter we begin to uncover the history of Fergus, piece-by-piece, just as he has hidden it over many years. Written with effective symmetry, as he begins to remember, Sabrina begins to uncover. At the same time, unravelling her Father’s story leads to much self-discovery for Sabrina. By delving into her father’s past she begins to fill in gaps in her life that she wasn’t even aware of.

With this new-found knowledge comes a renewed sense of self, place, and purpose, and a much-needed push from the parameters she stands on into the centre of her family and life. This is a story about identity, memory and family ties, about how so much of what we are is bound up in our shared history. If those closest to us don’t really know us, can we truly exist at all?

In essence, it is only by sharing ourselves that we have someone to remind us should we forget. Her novels have been translated into thirty-five languages and have sold more than twenty-five million copies in over fifty countries.

Two of her books have been adapted as films and she has created several TV series. After completing a degree in Journalism and Media Communications, Cecelia wrote her first novel at 21 years old. PS I Love You was born from my feelings of sadness, fear and loss of my identity. I poured my heart into the story of a woman suffering from grief after the loss of her husband, a woman who had hit the lowest point of her life and was struggling with both the desire and the ability to find her way out of the fog.

I am fascinated and inspired by the human spirit, by the fact that no matter how hopeless we feel and how dark life can be, we do have the courage, strength and bravery to push through our challenging moments.

We are the greatest warriors in our own stories. I like to catch my characters as they fall, and bring them from low to high. My characters push through and as a result evolve, become stronger and better equipped for the next challenge that life brings. I like to mix dark with light, sadness with humour, always keeping a balance, and always bringing the story to a place of hope. Enhance your purchase. A forgotten childhood. A discovered life. What if you only had one day to find out who you really were?

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Liz Robinson. A forgotten childhood. A discovered life. What if you only had one day to find out who you really were? When Sabrina Boggs stumbles upon a mysterious collection of her father’s possessions, she discovers a truth where she never knew there was a lie.

The familiar man she grew up with is suddenly a stranger to her. An unexpected break in her monotonous daily routine leaves her just one day to unlock the secrets of the man she thought she knew. A day that unearths memories, stories and people she never knew existed.

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