Dublin - Edward Rutherfurd

This is really not the type of book that I would normally pick up, let alone choose to read, however it was given to us as a gift and therefore I decided to give it the benefit of the doubt. Being an avid reader I am always on the look out for more material to feed the fire, so am not one to look a gift book in the mouth, so to speak. Rutherford seems to have made a career of writing these sweeping historical fiction novels, basing the novel around a particular place - Dublin, in the case of this novel - and using a series of characters through the centuries to explore the history. Dublin is his fourth of fifth book following this format - the preceeding ones ...