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#BookReview of #TheDesireLine by Jane Cassidy | @JaneCassidy2 | @PoolbegBooks

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne4th September 20232 Comments

‘Was it possible there’d been a house in this place? He thought of the old folksong ‘The May Morning Dew’ and the line about the singer’s childhood home being but a stone on a stone. Here there wasn’t even a stone on a stone, just mud, grass and bitter wind.’– The Desire Line [ About…

#BookReview of #TheLastDevilToDie by Richard Osman

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne1st September 20231 Comment

‘THE FOURTH NOVEL IN THE RECORD-BREAKING, MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING THURSDAY MURDER CLUB SERIES BY RICHARD OSMAN‘– THE LAST DEVIL TO DIE [ About The Last Devil To Die ] Shocking news reaches the Thursday Murder Club. An old friend in the antiques business has been killed, and a dangerous package he was protecting has gone missing. As the…

#BookReview of #HowToBuildABoat by Elaine Feeney

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne30th August 2023Leave a comment

‘Meet Jamie and his community on the west coast of Ireland, in the most uplifting and tender book of the year‘– How to Build a Boat [ About How to Build a Boat ] Jamie O’Neill loves the colour red. He also loves tall trees, patterns, rain that comes with wind, the curvature of many…

#BookReview of #ThisIsMySea by Miriam Mulcahy | @MulcahyMir | @eriu_books

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne28th August 20232 Comments

‘An exploration of grief and recovery’– This is My Sea [ About This is My Sea ] Over the course of seven difficult years Miriam Mulcahy lost her mother, father and sister, each grief threatening to drown her. But instead of going under she discovered the lessons of the sea, letting the water teach her…

#BookReview of #TheWrenTheWren by Anne Enright

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne23rd August 2023Leave a comment

‘Carmel had been alone all her life. The baby knew this. They looked at each other, and all of time was there. The baby knew how vast her mother’s loneliness had been.‘– The Wren, The Wren [ About The Wren, The Wren ] Nell – funny, brave and so much loved – is a young…

#BookReview of #KALA by Colin Walsh | @AtlanticBooks

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne22nd August 20234 Comments

‘We’re fifteen and it’s the summer of our lives so Kinlough is gathering itself up into the moment with us – the whole town’s pure responsive to our energies‘– KALA [ About KALA ] In the seaside town of Kinlough, on Ireland’s west coast, three old friends are thrown together for the first time in…

#BookReview of #GoneTonight by Sarah Pekkanen

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne11th August 20232 Comments

‘What would make a teenage girl vanish into the night and live a life on the run for two decades?’– Gone Tonight [ About Gone Tonight ] Catherine Sterling thinks she knows her mother. Ruth Sterling is quiet, hardworking, and lives for her daughter. All her life, it’s been just the two of them against…

#BookReview of #AGameOfLies by Clare Mackintosh

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne9th August 20232 Comments

They say the camera never lies.But on this show, you can’t trust anything you see.– A Game of Lies [ About A Game of Lies ] Stranded in the Welsh mountains, seven reality show contestants have no idea what they’ve signed up for. Each of these strangers has a secret. If another player can guess…

#BookReview – It Could Never Happen Here by @eithneshortall

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne2nd August 20232 Comments

[ About It Could Never Happen Here ] Small town. Huge scandal. Beverley Franklin will do whatever it takes to protect her local school’s reputation. So when a scandal involving her own daughter threatens to derail the annual school musical’s appearance on national television, Beverley goes into overdrive. But in her efforts to protect her…

#BookReview of #GoSeek by Michelle Teahan | @shellteah

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne31st July 20232 Comments

‘YOU LOOKED AWAY FOR JUST A MINUTE‘– Go Seek [ About Go Seek ] Your daughter is gone, and only you can find her.Because you know exactly who took her.And they’re making her pay for your past. To save one child, you must leave the other.You must return to your old life.And become the woman…

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