#BookReview of #NORA by Nuala O’ Connor | @NualaNiC | @NewIslandBooks

‘Jim styles me his sleepy-eyed Nora. His squirrel girl from the pages of Ibsen. I am pirate queen and cattle raider. I’m his blessed little blackguard. I am, he says, his auburn marauder. I’m his honourable barnacle goose…. “Nora,” Jim says, “you are story.”’– NORA [ About the Book ] When Nora Barnacle, a twenty-year-old from Galway working as a maid at Finn’s Hotel, meets…

#BookReview of #FreshWaterForFlowers by @valerieperrin_ (Translated by Hildegarde Serle) | @EuropaEdUK | @midaspr

‘A poignant bestselling novel full of French charm and memorable characters.‘– Fresh Water for Flowers [ About the Book ] Violette Toussaint is the caretaker at a cemetery in a small town in Bourgogne. Her daily life is lived to the rhythms of the hilarious and touching confidences of random visitors and her colleagues—three gravediggers,…

#BookReview of #YoursCheerfully by AJ Pearce

From the author of Sunday Times Bestseller, Dear Mrs Bird, comes a much hoped-for follow up, Yours Cheerfully. Charming, heart-warming and hilarious, Yours Cheerfully is just the tonic we’ve all been waiting for. ‘Full of wit, friendship and the uplifting knowledge that when people come together, great changes can be made’ – Katie Fforde [ About the Book ] London, September,…