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#BookReview of #IDOL by Louise O’ Neill

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne28th June 2022Leave a comment

‘Follow your heart and speak your truth.’– IDOL [ About the Book ] For Samantha Miller’s young fans – her ‘girls’ – she’s everything they want to be. She’s an oracle, telling them how to live their lives, how to be happy, how to find and honour their ‘truth’. And her career is booming: she’s…

#BookReview of #TakeMyHand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne23rd June 20222 Comments

‘HISTORY REPEATS WHAT WE DON’T REMEMBER . . .‘– Take My Hand [ About the Book ] Montgomery, Alabama. 1973. Fresh out of nursing school, Civil Townsend has big plans to make a difference in her community. At the Montgomery Family Planning Clinic, she intends to help women make their own choices for their lives…

#BookReview of #GirlForgotten by Karin Slaughter

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne22nd June 20222 Comments

‘From the New York Times bestselling author of Pieces of Her, comes an electrifying thriller featuring newly minted US Marshal Andrea Oliver as she investigates a cold case with links to her father’s past.’ – Girl, Forgotten [ About the Book ] A girl with a secret… Longbill Beach, 1982. Emily Vaughn gets ready for the prom. For…

#BookReview of #TheAmusements by Aingeala Flannery | @missflannery @PenguinIEBooks

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne21st June 2022Leave a comment

‘ The Amusements “The writing, so true to small-town life, is both shrewd and enlarging. ” – Anne Enright [ About the Book ] In the seaside town of Tramore, County Waterford, visitors arrive in waves with the tourist season, reliving the best days of their childhoods in its caravan parks, chippers and amusement arcades.…

#BookReview of #TastingSunlight by Ewald Arenz | @OrendaBooks

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne15th June 2022Leave a comment

*The Breakout German Bestseller*– Tasting Sunlight [ About the Book ] Teenager Sally has just run away from a clinic where she to be treated for anorexia. She’s furious with everything and everyone, and wants to be left in peace. Liss is in her forties, living alone on a large farm that she runs single-handedly.…

#BookReview of #LifeBeforeUs by @roisinmeaney | @HachetteIre

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne15th June 20222 Comments

‘Meet George and Alice before they meet each other’– Life Before Us [ About the Book ] Three facts about GeorgeHis daughter Suzi is the best thing in his life.He thinks it might finally be time to get over Suzi’s mum.He’s never tried online dating but there’s a first time for everything. Three facts about…

#BookReview of #Unhinged by Jørn Lier Horst & Thomas Enger | @OrendaBooks

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne14th June 2022Leave a comment

‘‘Blix & Ramm are back in a breathless, emotive thriller by two of Norway’s finest crime writers…When a police investigator is killed execution-style and Blix’s own daughter is targeted by the killer, he makes a dangerous decision, which could cost him everything.’– Unhinged [ About the Book ] When police investigator Sofia Kovic uncovers a…

#BookReview of #BeyondTimeAndTide by Anna Franklin Osborne | @HomeOsborne

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne10th June 20222 Comments

‘The first boat was returning.Heavily overloaded, men crouching, huddled against one another and holding on tightly to avoid being thrown over the gunwales riding low in the choppy seas. And then, behind this little ship, another and then another, all chugging slowly, all loaded with men on every deck, every surface that could possibly hold…

#BookReview of #FactoryGirls by @michellegallen| @johnmurrays

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne9th June 2022Leave a comment

‘The brand new novel from the Costa-shortlisted author of Big Girl, Small Town’– Factory Girls [ About the Book ] Smart-mouthed and filthy-minded, Maeve Murray has always felt like an outsider in the shitty wee town in Northern Ireland that she calls home. She hopes her exam results will be her ticket to a new…

#BookReview of #Crookedwood by Liza Costello @as_in_Leeza | @HachetteIre

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne8th June 20222 Comments

ONE PERSON’S BANISHED MEMORY IS ANOTHER’S UNFINISHED BUSINESS– Crookedwood [ About the Book ] Crookedwood, quiet Irish midlands town, place of secrets, past and present. Sarah left it behind years ago for life in the city, where she’s now a rising star of the Dublin culinary scene. She’s home to help her mother sell the…

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