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Jun 7, 20238 min read
People & Culture Magazine: The Sunday Independent
Author Charleen Hurtubise: ‘Well-meaning mourners tell me it’s a blessing my parents left together. I’m stung by the callousness of these...
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Jun 7, 20231 min read
The Best Books To Read This Summer From 2023’s New Releases
Orna Mulcahy writes: Debut writer Charleen Hurtubise’s THE POLITE ACT OF DROWNING will instantly transport you to summer. Set in a...
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Jun 7, 20231 min read
Brace Yourselves.
"I'm about to rave." So starts a most fabulous review by Lynda Marron on Instagram. This sort of review that makes the journey from idea...
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Jun 7, 20231 min read
TripFiction Review
I love this blog: TripFiction.com Matching your travel plans with the best books set in that location. Thanks to book reviewer Sue Kelso...
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May 1, 20231 min read
Reviews: Swirl & Thread
It is such a buzz to hear people are reading The Polite Act of Drowning. It is even better when I hear a reader's thoughts on the novel. ...
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Apr 23, 20232 min read
Not Waving but Drowning
Book interview with Sue Leonard for the Irish Examiner "In August 2020, when I was on a retreat in the Tyrone Guthrie Centre,...
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Apr 15, 20231 min read
The Irish Times Review
It’s 1985, in the valley-of-the-squinting-windows type of small town that is Kettle Lake, a fishing community on the edge of Michigan’s...
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Apr 15, 20231 min read
The Polite Act of Drowning - THE RYAN TUBRIDY SHOW
Charleen Hurtubise is a teacher and writer who turned trauma into a powerful and evocative book set in the Michigan Lakes. The Polite Act...
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Apr 10, 20231 min read
You Must Read This: Charleen Hurtubise on The Member of the Wedding, a lonely child’s story
Charleen Hurtubise April 08 2023 02:30 AM The Independent Carson McCullers’ novella The Member of the Wedding, published in 1946, is one...
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Apr 10, 20232 min read
Charleen Hurtubise’s immersive The Polite Act of Drowning depicts a family treading water in small-t
Anne Cunningham for The Sunday Independent The story begins with the accidental drowning of a young girl in the tiny beach town of Kettle...
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Apr 10, 20231 min read
The Sunday Times: Charleen Hurtubise on trauma, a new life in Ireland and her debut novel
(Image: Bryan Meade for The Sunday Times) The artist and author talks to Sophie Grenham about The Polite Act of Drowning "One of the...
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Feb 27, 20231 min read
Independent Book Reviews
Fiona Sharp had this to say: Thank you to the publishers for this early review copy, I was delighted to get my hands on an early copy as...
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Feb 2, 20230 min read
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Jan 17, 20231 min read
The proofs have arrived!
These beautiful proofs arrived yesterday! Years of persistence + encouragement from the Irish writing community = Here we are! What a...
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Jan 8, 20231 min read
'The best books to look forward to in 2023'
There couldn't have been a more thrilling end to 2022 than by having Martin Doyle break the news of my upcoming debut in the Irish Times!
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