With divorce now legal in Ireland, Dreaming of a Stranger, by Sheila O'Flanagan (Poolbeg, £5.99), gives an insight into a modern-style marriage. Written in the first person, it chronicles the life of Jane O'Sullivan; from drinking in Searson's with the fastmoving bank traders and Leeson Street clubs to marriage, house and baby. There is never any shortage of money, only time to communicate, and what looks like a dream life on the outside soon becomes a nightmare. A roller-coaster ride through lives of affluence and destruction.