‘She has almost everything. The rest she’ll take.‘– Magpie [ About the Book ] Sometimes Marisa gets the fanciful notion that Kate has visited the house before. She makes herself at home without any self-consciousness. She puts her toothbrush right there in the master bathroom, on the shelf next to theirs.In Jake, Marisa has found…
We just need to know what the heart’s capable of, Evelyn.And do you know what it’s capable of?I do. Grace and fury.– Still Life [ About the Book ] It’s 1944 and in the ruined wine cellar of a Tuscan villa, as the Allied troops advance and bombs fall around them, two strangers meet and…
‘It’s just my luck’ he said, ‘that when I finally find a soulmate, she’s fifteen years old’ – My Dark Vanessa [ About the Book ] 2000. Bright, ambitious, and yearning for adulthood, fifteen-year-old Vanessa Wye becomes entangled in an affair with Jacob Strane, her magnetic and guileful forty-two-year-old English teacher. 2017. Amid the rising wave…
‘In 1979 Bridget Doyle has one goal left in life; for her family to produce the very first Irish pope…’ [ About the Book ] In 1979 Bridget Doyle has one goal left in life: for her family to produce the very first Irish pope. Fired up by John Paul II’s appearance in Phoenix Park,…
Well folks it’s that most wonderful time of the year and for me on my blog it means that I take a few weeks off to get organised and to spend more quality time with my family. So that leaves with me one very important job to do…to GIVE AWAY SOME BOOKS!! Harper Collins Ireland…
Today I have a review of The Wife’s Tale, a personal history. Written by Aida Edemariam, it is published by 4th Estate, and recounts the life of Yetemegnu, an Ethiopian woman, of strength and determination, who lived through the many changes of her society and culture in the 20th century.