Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Can't like the main character

I simply could not find anything sympathetic about the main character in this book. She is an irritating, self-centered, and immoral woman who created her own empty life and then whined about it. The book held flashes of interest when it dealt with the secondary story about the Famine love affair. Much of the conversation in the book is stilted. I love current Irish fiction and non-fiction, and there are much better examples of the fine writing now coming from Ireland than this novel.