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#BookReview | #FilterThis by Sophie White | @SophWhiteWrites | @HachetteIre

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne16th August 20199 Comments

Are the #instafabulous really #livingtheirbestlives ?– Filter This [ About the Book ] Ali Jones is hell-bent on achieving her #lifegoals: 10,000 Instagram followers and a win at the upcoming Glossie Influencer Awards. So when she inadvertently leads people to believe she is sporting a baby bump and immediately gains thousands of followers, she realises…

#BookReview | The Most Difficult Thing by Charlotte Philby |

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne14th August 20197 Comments

‘HOW DO YOU KNOW WHO’S ON YOUR SIDEIF YOU DON’T KNOW WHOSE SIDE YOU’RE ON?’– The Most Difficult Thing [ About the Book ] On the surface, Anna Witherall personifies everything the aspirational magazine she works for represents. Married to her university boyfriend David, she has a beautiful home and gorgeous three-year-old twin daughters, Stella…

#BookReview | #TheSummerVilla by @melissahillbks |@HCinIreland

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne13th August 20192 Comments

‘One summer.A trip that will change everything.’ – The Summer Villa Hello folks!! I went off the radar there for a week or so as we went on a very unscheduled break to Co. Kerry, which was just FANTASTIC. Back now with lots more exciting books to read and also to share my thoughts with…

#BookReview | Love & Ruin by Paula McLain (With a reference to For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway)

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne2nd August 20195 Comments

In 1937, courageous and independent Martha Gellhorn travels to Madrid to report on the atrocities of the Spanish Civil War… – Love & Ruin [ About Love & Ruin ] In 1937, courageous and independent Martha Gellhorn travels to Madrid to report on the atrocities of the Spanish Civil War, and finds herself drawn to…

The Birthday Party by Roisin Meaney | #BookReview

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne1st August 20192 Comments

‘I wish…’ she began, and came to a halt. She wished so much. She wished he was different. She wished their story was different…She wished they loved one another, and depended on one another, and missed each other when they were apart’ – The Birthday Party [ About the Book ] Another summer is in…

A Nail, A Rose by Madeleine Bourdouxhe | #BookReview | @PushkinPress

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne31st July 20196 Comments

A Nail, A Rose is a collection of ‘sharp, elegant stories of women’s inner lives by the rediscovered Belgian author Madeleine Bourdouxhe‘ [ About the Book ] These are stories of longing and dissatisfaction, of daily life ruptured by strange currents of feeling. A woman, wandering alone and heartbroken, is first attacked and then romantically…

The Things I Know by Amanda Prowse | #BookReview | @MrsAmandaProwse | #TheThingsIKnow

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne30th July 20193 Comments

She knows she’s not like most women.Fortunately, he’s not like most men. [ About the Book ] Thomasina ‘Hitch’ Waycott loves living and working on the remote family farm and B&B. But she also wants more. To see the world. To own her own home. To fall madly in love. But those are fairy tales,…

#BookReview – The Closer I Get by @PaulBurston | @OrendaBooks |#TheCloserIGet

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne29th July 20192 Comments

Danger is just a ‘like’ away…Some followers are fatal…–The Closer I Get [ About the Book ] Tom is a successful author, but he’s struggling to finish his novel. His main distraction is an online admirer, Evie, who simply won’t leave him alone.Evie is smart, well read and unstable; she lives with her father and…

Not Having It All by @Jennie_Ensor | #BookReview

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne24th July 20194 Comments

‘Where to begin? Too many thoughts to put down. But if I don’t, they’ll spend what’s left of the night partying in my cerebral cortex and sleep will be even more impossible’ [ About the Book ] Neuroscientist Bea Hudson fears she is a bad mother and that her career will be thwarted by family…

Night Boat to Tangier by Kevin Barry | @canongatebooks

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne22nd July 20197 Comments

‘Maurice Hearne and Charlie Redmond sit on a bench just a few yards west of the hatch. They are in their low fifties. The years are rolling out like the tide now. There is old weather on their faces, on the hard lines of their jaws, on their chaotic mouths. But they retain – just…

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