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#BookReview of #GlassHouses by Melanie Murphy

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne17th May 2022Leave a comment

‘To be home without her was to ache all over with a grief so fierce it could bruise his living flesh’ [ About the Book ] Jenna Walker has suddenly found herself with no job, no boyfriend, nowhere to live – and she’s been wondering for a while now if, apart from her beloved cat…

#BookReview of #Three by Valérie Perrin | @EuropaEdUK

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne12th May 20229 Comments

‘A COMPULSIVE STORY ABOUT THE POWERS AND FLEETINGNESS OF FRIENDSHIP, LOVE AND LIFE‘ – FROM THE AUTHOR OF FRESH WATER FOR FLOWERS [ About the Book ] 1986: Adrien, Etienne and Nina are 10 years old when they meet at school and become inseparable. They promise each other they will one day leave their provincial backwater,…

#BookReview of #TheMurderRule by Dervla McTiernan

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne11th May 2022Leave a comment

[ About the Book ] No one is innocent in this story. First Rule: Make them like you.Second Rule: Make them need you.Third Rule: Make them pay. They think I’m a young, idealistic law student, that I’m passionate about reforming a corrupt and brutal system. They think I’m working hard to impress them. They think I’m here to save an innocent…

#BookReview of #Bessborough by Deirdre Finnerty | @deefinnerty @HachetteIre

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne9th May 2022Leave a comment

‘Three Women.Three Decades.Three Stories of Courage.’ [ About the Book ] For over seventy years, Bessborough House, a grand country mansion on the outskirts of Cork city, operated as one of Ireland’s biggest mother and baby institutions. Women and girls who walked up its stone steps were warned never to reveal their true identities and…

#BookReview of #PeoplePerson by Candice Carty-Williams

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne6th May 20222 Comments

New from the Sunday Times bestselling author of QUEENIE– People Person [ About the Book ] Dimple Pennington knew of her half siblings, but she didn’t really know them. Five people who don’t have anything in common except for faint memories of being driven through Brixton in their dad’s gold jeep, and some pretty complex abandonment issues. Dimple has…

#BookReview of #TheyAllLied by Louise Phillips

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne4th May 20221 Comment

TRUTH OR DAREOne day Evie was there, and then she was goneOne day Becca was there, and now she is gone too. Will Nadine be able to save her daughter before it’s too late?– They All Lied [ About the Book ] When Nadine Fitzmaurice, a manager in an insurance company, gets a distressed phone…

#BookReview of #ATraitorsHeart by Ben Creed @welbeckpublish

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne3rd May 2022Leave a comment

‘A Revol Rossel thriller‘– A Traitor’s Heart [ About the Book ] Winter 1952. Leningrad’s icy streets are haunted by a murderer. Koshchei, named after a sinister figure from Slavic folklore, is an invisible killer who cuts out the tongue of his victims and replaces it with a scroll of paper containing a few lines…

#BookReview of #Elektra by Jennifer Saint | @jennysaint | @Wildfirebks

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne29th April 20222 Comments

‘IN A WORLD RULED BY GODS AND HEROES, THE VOICES OF STRONG WOMEN HAVE BEEN SILENCED.UNTIL NOW’– ELEKTRA [ About the Book ] The House of Atreus is cursed. A bloodline tainted by a generational cycle of violence and vengeance. This is the story of three women, their fates inextricably tied to this curse, and…

#BookReview of #ChinaRoom by Sunjeev Sahota

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne25th April 20222 Comments

China Room Shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize 2022Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2021Longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2022Longlist for the Ondaatje Prize 2022 A Daily Telegraph , Guardian and The Times Book of the Year [ About the Book ] Mehar, a young bride in rural 1929 Punjab, is trying to discover the identity…

#BookReview of #WhatEdenDidNext by @sheilaoflanagan

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne21st April 20223 Comments

‘Celebrating Sheila’s 30th book in 20 years of bestsellers’– What Eden Did Next [ About the Book ] Five years after the death of her firefighter husband, Eden knows better than anyone that life can change in an instant. Now, instead of the future she had planned with Andy, she has Lila – the daughter he…

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