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#Bookreview | #Expectation by @Anna_Hope

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne8th July 20206 Comments

‘What happened to the women we were supposed to become?’– Expectation [ Book Description ] Hannah, Cate and Lissa are young, vibrant and inseparable. Living on the edge of a common in East London, their shared world is ablaze with art and activism, romance and revelry – and the promise of everything to come. They…

#BookReview | #TheSightOfYou by @ByHollyMiller | @HodderBooks

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne21st May 20206 Comments

‘Would you choose LOVE…If you knew how it would END?’– The Sight of You [ About the Book ] Joel is afraid of the future.Since he was a child he’s been haunted by dreams about the people he loves. Visions of what’s going to happen – the good and the bad. And the only way…

#BookReview #NormalPeople by Sally Rooney

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne6th May 202015 Comments

‘The literary phenomenon of the decade.’ – Guardian– Normal People [ About the Book ] Connell and Marianne grow up in the same small town in rural Ireland. The similarities end there; they are from very different worlds. When they both earn places at Trinity College in Dublin, a connection that has grown between them lasts…

#BookReview | Q by Christina Dalcher | @CVDalcher | @HQstories | #OnlyThePerfect | #QBook

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne28th April 202012 Comments

‘I wonder what we’ll do with the people who aren’t necessary anymore?’– Q [ About the Book ] Elena Fairchild is a teacher at one of the state’s new elite schools. Her daughters are exactly like her: beautiful, ambitious, and perfect. A good thing, since the recent mandate that’s swept the country is all about…

#BookReview | #DeepDarkNight by Steph Broadribb | @crimethrillgirl | @OrendaBooks

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne31st March 2020Leave a comment

A city in lockdownA building in lockdownA score that can only be settled in blood….– Deep Dark Night [ About the Book ] Working off the books for FBI Special Agent Alex Monroe, Florida bounty-hunter Lori Anderson and her partner, JT, head to Chicago. Their mission: to entrap the head of the Cabressa crime family.…

#BookReview | The Book of Echoes by @RosannaAmaka @DoubledayUK | #TheBookOfEchoes

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne28th February 2020Leave a comment

‘A story of love, hope and resilience rippling through the generations..’– The Book of Echoes [ About the Book ] Narrated by the soul of an African slave woman, who giving thanks at a shrine in Africa over two hundred years ago, tosses her infant son to safety moments before she is hauled away by slavers.…

#BookReview | The Paper Bracelet by @EnglishRachael | @HachetteIre | #ThePaperBracelet

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne27th February 202013 Comments

‘Every baby’s bracelet held a mother’s secret…’– The Paper Bracelet [ About the Book ] For almost fifty years, Katie has kept a box of secrets. It dates from her time working as a nurse in a west of Ireland mother and baby home, and contains a notebook with details of the babies and young…

#BookReview | #SaturdaysAtNoon by @Rache1Marks |#Blogtour with @MichaelJBooks |

Blog Tour, Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne13th February 20205 Comments

‘One circle of strangersTwo people who’d rather be anywhere elseThree lives about to change for ever‘– Saturdays at Noon [ About the Book ] Emily just wants to keep the world away.She doesn’t want anyone to know all the ways her life is messed up.Going to anger management every Saturday, talking to strangers, was not…

#BookReview | #SixWickedReasons by @SpainJoanne | @QuercusBooks

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne14th January 20206 Comments

One familyOne nightTen years of lies– Six Wicked Reasons [ About the Book ] It’s June 2008 and twenty-one-year-old Adam Lattimer vanishes, presumed dead. The strain of his disappearance breaks his already fragile family. Ten years later, with his mother deceased and siblings scattered across the globe, Adam turns up unannounced at the family home.…

#BookReview | #Violet by @SJIHolliday | @OrendaBooks

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne14th November 20194 Comments

StrangerBest friendLiar……. VIOLET [ About the Book ] When two strangers end up sharing a cabin on the Trans-Siberian Express, an intense friendship develops, one that can only have one ending Carrie’s best friend has an accident and can no longer make the round-the-world trip they’d planned together, so Carrie decides to go it alone.…

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