Ladies Night in Finbars Hotel Author:Dermot Bolger (Editor) Ladies Night in Finbars Hotel-a novel in the form of seven linked stories by seven Irish women writers: — Maeve Binchy, Clare Boylan, Emma Donoghue, Anne Haverty, Eilis Ni Dhibhne, Kate O'Riordan and Deirdre Purcell. — This is the second "Finbar's Hotel" collection edited by Bolger. — A year h... more »as passed since the closing of Finbar's Hotel, a down-on-its-heels hotel on the Dublin quays.
Once the clandestine haunt of priests, politicians, and prostitutes, Dublin's legendary Finbar's Hotel has undergone a transformation to keep pace with that city's reputation as the nightlife capital of Europe. Gone are the cubbyholes where deals were brokered and indiscretions covered up. Now, a magnificent new edifice of white leather and chic chrome welcomes Celtic Tiger elite, even if their motives and actions are frequently bizarre, comic, surreptitious and surprising as anything seen there before.
Now, with a rock star as its new owner, it has once more opened its doors-and Finbar's has become an ultra-chic gathering spot. Ladies Night in Finbars Hoteldescribes one night in its newly illustrious surroundings-a night filled with adventure and comic romp.
A fabulous mix of pathos and high humor, this is a sardonic tour of the gamut of human experience told by Ireland's finest modern storytellers ... a sometimes touching, sometimes funny story of one night in the nouveau chic Finbar's Hotel of Dublin. You will meet a woman getting impregnated by her best friend's husband, a career woman and her crazy father, a bride-to-be who gets the ultimate revenge on an old boyfriend who did her wrong, a nun looking for love in a most unorthodox manner, a mother reunited with the son she gave up for adoption, a woman who follows her husband to find out if he's cheating on her, and an aging actress who wants to recapture the past. Their paths all cross on one night at this hotel.« less