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My Mini Book Reviews of a few of my Summer reads | #bookreview

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne8th August 20228 Comments

I don’t normally write more than one review at a time but, as the days pass busily by, I decided I needed to gather up my thoughts on four of my recent reads if they were ever to see the light of day. I have written a few short words (mini book reviews) on each,…

#BookReview of #OtherPeoplesHusbands by Elizabeth Noble

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne2nd August 20223 Comments

‘From the million-copy No.1 bestselling author, Elizabeth Noble, comes another trademark emotionally complex drama about family, friendship, marriage and love.’– Other People’s Husbands [ About the Book ] Sometimes friendship crosses a line . . . A group of close friends, their bonds forged at the nursery gates two decades ago, have celebrated, commiserated and…

#BookReview of #HideAndSeek by @AndreaMaraBooks

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne21st July 20221 Comment

‘A twisty and compelling thriller about a tangled web of secrets in a close-knit suburban community’ [ About the Book ] CLOSE YOUR EYES The game of hide and seek is over, everyone has gone home, but little Lily Murphy hasn’t been found. Her parents search the woods and tell themselves that the worst hasn’t…

#BookReview of #TheCityUnderground by Michael Russell | @forgottencities

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne20th July 20222 Comments

‘In three years as a private detective, Emmet Warde had made many mistakes. He often felt the job itself was a mistake. The woman was certainly a mistake. He could have said no, the first time she came to see him. It was hard now.’– The City Underground [ About the Book ] Ireland 1941.…

#BookReview of #APerfectCopy by Derville Murphy

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne18th July 2022Leave a comment

‘Fake or fortune? Or something else entirely …‘– A Perfect Copy [ About the Book ] Daisy Staunton and Ben Tarrant meet at an auction and discover they own identical copies of a Victorian portrait of an elegant, enigmatic ancestor of theirs. But is one a fake? On a sweeping trail of mystery and intrigue…

#BookReview of #TraitorInTheIce by K.J. Maitland

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne15th July 2022Leave a comment

‘Whispers haunt the walls and treachery darkens the shadows in this captivating historical novel for readers of C.J. Sansom, Andrew Taylor’s Ashes of London and Kate Mosse.‘– Traitor in the Ice [ About the Book ] Winter, 1607. A man is struck down in the grounds of Battle Abbey, Sussex. Before dawn breaks, he is dead.…

#BookReview of #LifeSentences by Billy O’ Callaghan | @billythescribe

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne12th July 20222 Comments

‘Three generations. More than a century of famine, war, violence and love.‘– Life Sentences [ About the Book ] At sixteen Nancy, the only member of her family to survive the Great Famine, leaves her small island for the mainland. Finding work in a grand house on the edge of Cork City, she feels irrepressibly…

#BookReview of #AtTheTable by Claire Powell | @FleetReads

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne9th July 20222 Comments

“The point is, we’re all grown-ups here. You talk about us being old – how old are you two? You’re not children any more. You’re in your thirties. These things…happen”– At the Table [ About the Book ] To Nicole and Jamie Maguire, their parents seem the ideal couple – a suburban double act, happily…

#BookReview of #bluehour by Sarah Schmidt | @TinderPress | @ikillnovel

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne30th June 20224 Comments

She thinks of blue mountain, her favourite place. ‘We’re going somewhere where we can be safe. We never have to come back here.’– blue hour [ About the Book ] As the rest of the world lies sleeping, Eleanor straps her infant daughter, Amy, into the back of her car. This is the moment she knew…

#BookReview of #IDOL by Louise O’ Neill

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne28th June 2022Leave a comment

‘Follow your heart and speak your truth.’– IDOL [ About the Book ] For Samantha Miller’s young fans – her ‘girls’ – she’s everything they want to be. She’s an oracle, telling them how to live their lives, how to be happy, how to find and honour their ‘truth’. And her career is booming: she’s…

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