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#Bookreview | #LiesLiesLies by @adeleparks | @HQstories

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne20th September 20194 Comments

‘Explores the darkest corners of a relationship in freefall in a mesmerising tale of marriage and secrets’ – Lies, Lies, Lies [ About Lies, Lies, Lies ] Daisy and Simon’s marriage is great, isn’t it? After years together, the arrival of longed-for daughter Millie sealed everything in place. A happy little family of three. And…

#BookReview | #Postscript by @Cecelia_Ahern | @HCinIreland

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne18th September 201910 Comments

‘It’s been seven years since Holly Kennedy’s husband died – six since she read his final letter, urging Holly to find the courage to forge a new life…’– Postscript There was a seismic shift, the planets moved, there was a collective roar when it was announced that the very much longed for sequel to the…

#BookReview | Mr Godley’s Phantom by Mal Peet

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne17th September 2019Leave a comment

‘After the war, after he was out, Martin Heath did almost nothing for several months. He was still young but his dreams – nocturnal and diurnal – belonged to an older man, a man much damaged and long steeped in blood. Death operated the film projector inside his head’– Mr Godley’s Phantom [ About the…

#BookReview | Blood Song by @JoGustawsson | @OrendaBooks | #BloodSong

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne13th September 20195 Comments

‘Although the characters who live and die in these pages are the figment of my writerly imagination, the experiences they endure are rooted in the terrible truth of a dark, dark chapter in Spanish history’– Johana Gustawsson, author of Blood Song [ About the Book – Blood Song ] Spain, 1938: The country is wracked…

#BookReview | You’ll Never See Me Again by Lesley Pearse | #LoveLesley

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne10th September 20193 Comments

Betty Wellows is running for her life….– You’ll Never See Me Again Lesley Pearse is a much-loved storyteller for many reasons. In the UK alone a Lesley Pearse book is purchased EVERY 4 minutes, with her tales packed with characters that her readers truly care about. ‘ There is no formula to her books or…

#BookReview | #REWIND by Catherine Ryan Howard | @cathryanhoward | @CorvusBooks

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne6th September 20194 Comments

‘A moment’s delay.Then a frenzy of motion.The woman’s eyes open. Her body rises, head and shoulders lifting from the pillows, legs rising beneath the sheets. She opens her mouth as if to scream…’– REWIND [ About the Book ] PLAYAndrew, the manager of Shanamore Holiday Cottages, watches his only guest via a hidden camera in…

#BookReview | Meet Me in Monaco by @HazelGaynor and @msheatherwebb | @HCinIreland

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne4th September 20198 Comments

‘Each scent holds a mystery, its own story. That was the first lesson Papa taught me. “To be a parfumeur is to be a detective Sophie”I would inhale and be whisked away in an instant. A touch of jasmine hinted at carefree days in the sun. Woodsmoke conjured a cool autumn night and rich cassoulet…

#BookReview | A Single Thread by @Tracy_Chevalier | #ASingleThread

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne3rd September 20196 Comments

‘Courage can be found in the unlikeliest of places’– A Single Thread [ About the Book ] It is 1932, and the losses of the First World War are still keenly felt. Violet Speedwell, mourning for both her fiancé and her brother and regarded by society as a ‘surplus woman’ unlikely to marry, resolves to…

#BookReview | In the Absence of Miracles by Michael J. Malone

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne2nd September 20196 Comments

‘And in the absence of truth, in the absence of a miracle, we turn to prayer.And to violence…’ – In the Absence of Miracles [ About the Book ] John Docherty’s mother has just been taken into a nursing home following a massive stroke and she’s unlikely to be able to live independently again. With…

#BookReview | The Nanny at Number 43 by Nicola Cassidy | @ladynicci | @PoolbegBooks

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne30th August 20199 Comments

Be Careful Who You Let Into Your Home – The Nanny at Number 43 When blogger and writer Nicola Cassidy took a local history tour of her home town in Drogheda, Co. Louth she had no idea that a passing tale, told by the guide, would inspire her second novel. The Nanny at Number 43…

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