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Monthly Archives: January 2020

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#BookReview | #TellMeYourSecret by Dorothy Koomson

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne31st January 20205 Comments

Pieta has a secretJody has a secretWill telling their secrets save or sacrifice each other…– Tell Me Your Secret [ About the Book ] Pieta has a secret.Ten years ago, Pieta was kidnapped by a man calling himself The Blindfolder who said he wouldn’t kill her if she kept her eyes closed for 48 hours.…

#BookReview | #TheHome by Sarah Stovell @sarahlovescrime | @OrendaBooks

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne29th January 20206 Comments

One more little secretOne more little lie….-The Home [ About the Book ] When the body of pregnant, 15-year-old Hope Lacey is discovered in a churchyard on Christmas morning, the community is shocked, but unsurprised. For Hope lived in The Home, the residence of three young girls, whose violent and disturbing pasts have seen them…

#BookReview | #SavingMissy by @BethMorrey |@HarperFiction

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne27th January 20204 Comments

Meet Missy.A bit prickly.Very stubborn.Terribly lonelyAnd it’s all her fault….But does Missy deserve a second chance?-Saving Missy [ About the Book ] Missy Carmichael’s life has become small.Grieving for a family she has lost or lost touch with, she’s haunted by the echoes of her footsteps in her empty home; the sound of the radio…

#BookReview | #MyDarkVanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell |@4thEstateBooks

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne24th January 20208 Comments

‘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…

#BookReview | #TheRabbitHunter by Lars Kepler

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne22nd January 20204 Comments

Ten little rabbits, all dressed in whiteTried to get to heaven on the end of a kite.Kite string got broken, down they all fell,Instead of going to heaven, they all went to…– The Rabbit Hunter [ About the Book ] It begins with a nursery rhyme. Nineteen minutes later you die.A masked stranger stands in…

#BookReview | #AmericanDirt by @jeaninecummins | @TinderPress

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne20th January 20209 Comments

Yesterday Lydia had a bookshopYesterday Lydia was married to a journalistYesterday she was with everyone she loved most in the worldToday, her eight-year-old son Luca is all she has left.For him, she will carry a machete strapped to her leg.For him, she will leap onto the roof of a high speed train.For him, she will…

#Extract | Beyond the Moon by Catherine Taylor | @CathTaylorNovel

ExtractBy Mairéad Hearne16th January 2020Leave a comment

‘Haunting debut timeslip novel, where a strange twist of fate connects a British soldier fighting in the First World War and a young woman living in modern-day England a century later.‘– Beyond the Moon Today I am delighted to welcome Catherine Taylor with an extract from her debut novel Beyond the Moon. Published June 26th…

#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 |#TheDilemma by @BAParisAuthor

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne13th January 20206 Comments

Knowing the truth will destroy her…Keeping it secret will destroy him… The Dilemma – how far would you go to give someone you love a last few hours of happiness? [ About the Book ] It’s Livia’s 40th birthday and she’s having the party of a lifetime to make up for the wedding she never…

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