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#BookReview of #AmericanBombshell by David King | @PoolbegBooks

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne11th April 2023Leave a comment

Love, lies and taboo liaisons, a coming-of-age story. Set against the backdrop of a country at war.– American Bombshell [ About American Bombshell ] Incarcerated in an abusive orphanage by an unstable and vengeful mother, seventeen-year-old Rosie Haskell is released in February 1944 to survive in an adult world. She finds a job at a wartime…

#BookReview of #SabinesWar by Eva Taylor | #Blogtour with @midaspr

Blog TourBy Mairéad Hearne27th March 2022Leave a comment

‘The incredible true story of a resistance fighter who survived three concentration camps‘– Sabine’s War [ About the Book ] Sabine’s War is the previously untold story of a remarkable resistance fighter and her incredible story of survival against the odds. When Germany invaded Holland in May 1940, Sabine Zuur joined the resistance movement without a…

#BookReview of #TheStorytellerOfCasablanca by @FionaValpy | @FMcMAssociates | @AmazonPub

Blog Tour, Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne14th September 20212 Comments

‘A strange new city offers a young girl hope. Can it also offer a lost soul a second chance?‘The Storyteller of Casablanca [ About the Book ] Morocco, 1941. With France having fallen to Nazi occupation, twelve-year-old Josie has fled with her family to Casablanca, where they await safe passage to America. Life here is…

#BookReview of #WhileParisSlept by @RuthDruart | @headlinepg

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne3rd March 20214 Comments

‘On a platform in occupied Paris, a mother whispers goodbye.It is the end. But also the beginning…‘– While Paris Slept [ About the Book ] Santa Cruz 1953Jean-Luc thought he had left it all behind. The scar on his face a small price to pay for surviving the horrors of Nazi Occupation. Now, he has a new…

#BookReview | #ATelegramFromBerlin by A. O’ Connor | @PoolbegBooks

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne21st October 2020Leave a comment

‘Sometimes the past is too frightening to visit’– A Telegram from Berlin [ About the Book ] 1939 – As the clouds of war gather across Europe, diplomat Gabriel Ford is sent to London to outline the Irish government’s intended policy of neutrality. While there, Gabriel, recently engaged and the son of a War of…

#BookReview |#TheWinterAgent by @GarethRubin | #BlogTour with @MichaelJBooks

Blog Tour, Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne28th May 20204 Comments

‘Based on real events, this is the gripping story of a man operating in the darkest of circumstances – and the unimaginable sacrifices war demands of those who fight it.‘– The Winter Agent [ About the Book ] February, 1944. A bitter winter grips occupied France, where Marc Reece leads an SOE circuit facing deadly…

#BookReview | #WhenWeFall by @novelcarolyn | @noexitpress

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne24th April 20204 Comments

‘With characters inspired by the real female pilots who flew for Air Transport Auxiliary, as well as the only female victim of the Katyn massacre, who was also a pilot’– When We Fall When We Fall by Carolyn Kirby will be published in paperback format with No Exit Press on 7th May 2020 to coincide…

An Italian Affair by Caroline Montague | #BookReview | @CMontagueAuthor

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne23rd April 2019Leave a comment

A sweeping story of love, betrayal and war…. [ About the Book ] Love. War. Family. Betrayal. Italy, 1937. Alessandra Durante is grieving the loss of her husband when she discovers she has inherited her ancestral family seat, Villa Durante, deep in the Tuscan Hills. Longing for a new start, she moves from her home…

The Lives Before Us by Juliet Conlin | #BookReview | #Blogtour | @JulietConlin |@bwpublishing

Blog Tour, Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne17th April 20199 Comments

Two women.A world at war.Can they survive the Shanghai Ghetto? [ About the Book ] It is April 1939, and, in Berlin and Vienna, Esther and Kitty face a brutal choice. Flee Europe, or face the ghetto, incarceration, death. Shanghai … They’ve heard it whispered that Shanghai might offer refuge. And so, on a crowded…

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