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#BookReview of #TheGhostlights by Gráinne Murphy | @GraMurphy | @Legend_Times_

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne25th May 20222 Comments

‘The poignant story of a family of Irish women who are each looking for the real meaning of home’– The Ghostlights [ About the Book ] Can anyone really choose to be forgotten?An elderly gentleman checks into a B&B in a small village in rural Ireland where he knows nobody. Four days later, his body…

#BookReview of #TheLastToDisappear by Jo Spain | @SpainJoanne

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne23rd May 2022Leave a comment

‘Welcome to Koppe, FinlandA picturesque villageA wondrous escape‘– The Last to Disappear [ About the Book ] A luxury resort. Three missing women. One body. When young London professional Alex Evans is informed that his sister’s body has been pulled from an icy lake in Northern Lapland, he assumes his irresponsible sister accidentally drowned. He…

#TheIsland by Adrian McKinty – #BookReview

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne23rd May 20226 Comments

IT WAS JUST SUPPOSED TO BE A FAMILY VACATION. A TERRIBLE ACCIDENT CHANGED EVERYTHING.– The Island [ About the Book ] After moving from a small country town to Seattle, Heather Baxter marries Tom, a widowed doctor with a young son and teenage daughter. A working vacation overseas seems like the perfect way to bring…

#BookReview of #BeWildLittleOne by Olivia Hope and illustrator Daniel Egnéus | @KidsBloomsbury | @Hopewrites | @DanielEgneus

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne20th May 20223 Comments

‘Wake up early, don’t be shy.This bright world can make you fly…Be Wild Little One [ About the Book ] This gorgeous, uplifting picture book celebrates the wildness in all of us, and the beauty of the world all around us. Prepare for a heart-lifting journey through the beauties of nature: from pine forests to…

#BookReview of #SixDaysInRome by Francesca Giacco

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne19th May 2022Leave a comment

‘And, with a slight left, there it is. All this space suddenly, exhale. Butter yellow buildings, with their faded blue windows. Some apartments have flower boxes, some are bare. If it were a little darker, I’d be able to see inside.Spectacular things in Rome can just happen like this, with no warning. Around a non-descript…

#BookReview of #GlassHouses by Melanie Murphy

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne17th May 2022Leave a comment

‘To be home without her was to ache all over with a grief so fierce it could bruise his living flesh’ [ About the Book ] Jenna Walker has suddenly found herself with no job, no boyfriend, nowhere to live – and she’s been wondering for a while now if, apart from her beloved cat…

#BookReview of #Three by Valérie Perrin | @EuropaEdUK

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne12th May 20228 Comments

‘A COMPULSIVE STORY ABOUT THE POWERS AND FLEETINGNESS OF FRIENDSHIP, LOVE AND LIFE‘ – FROM THE AUTHOR OF FRESH WATER FOR FLOWERS [ About the Book ] 1986: Adrien, Etienne and Nina are 10 years old when they meet at school and become inseparable. They promise each other they will one day leave their provincial backwater,…

#BookReview of #TheMurderRule by Dervla McTiernan

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne11th May 2022Leave a comment

[ About the Book ] No one is innocent in this story. First Rule: Make them like you.Second Rule: Make them need you.Third Rule: Make them pay. They think I’m a young, idealistic law student, that I’m passionate about reforming a corrupt and brutal system. They think I’m working hard to impress them. They think I’m here to save an innocent…

#BookReview of #Bessborough by Deirdre Finnerty | @deefinnerty @HachetteIre

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne9th May 2022Leave a comment

‘Three Women.Three Decades.Three Stories of Courage.’ [ About the Book ] For over seventy years, Bessborough House, a grand country mansion on the outskirts of Cork city, operated as one of Ireland’s biggest mother and baby institutions. Women and girls who walked up its stone steps were warned never to reveal their true identities and…

#BookReview of #PeoplePerson by Candice Carty-Williams

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne6th May 20222 Comments

New from the Sunday Times bestselling author of QUEENIE– People Person [ About the Book ] Dimple Pennington knew of her half siblings, but she didn’t really know them. Five people who don’t have anything in common except for faint memories of being driven through Brixton in their dad’s gold jeep, and some pretty complex abandonment issues. Dimple has…

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