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#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 #ICouldntLoveYouMore by Esther Freud | @BloomsburyBooks

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne19th October 20212 Comments

‘Rosaleen knew Felix Lichtman was dangerous. That was what she liked about him’– I Couldn’t Love You More [ About the Book ] Rosaleen is still a teenager, in the early Sixties, when she meets the famous sculptor Felix Lichtman. Felix is dangerous, bohemian, everything she dreamed of in the cold nights at her Catholic…

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