Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

Bluest Eye by Toni MorrisonA novel that immerses us in the tragic, torn lives of a poor black family Pauline, Cholly, Sam and Pecola in post Depression 1940s Ohio. Unlovely and unloved, Pecola prays each night for blue eyes like those of her privileged white schoolfellows.

is busy attempting to keep her mother from discovering her maybe-boyfriend and to keep everyone in the dark about her encounter with Milkman

Tatty becomes ever more aware of the strange reality of her home life

'As relevant today as when it was published

this book looks at the unorthodox lives of inspiring Irish women

The Catcher in the Rye is the ultimate American coming-of-age novel - a timeless classic

things begin to fall apart

athletic twenty-three year old playground director Bucky Cantor is devoted to his charges and ashamed with himself because his weak eyes have excluded him from serving in the war alongside his contemporaries

chances are you're a woman

Milkman is a tale of gossip and hearsay

big-hearted tale from the unparalleled picture book partnership of Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler

Marian Broderick tells the life stories of these exceptional Irish women

which perfectly captures the wit and invention of the original