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#BookReview of #TheCouples by Lauren Mackenzie | @LuluMack57

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne17th July 20232 Comments

‘Three couples, one night.And the life that follows…‘ [ About The Couples ] Eva looked out the attic window of their charming guest house and watched the sun rise. She thought she might be sick. Splayed on the lawn below was Frank, apparently out cold. Her husband snored in the bed behind her. She loved…

#BookReview of #TheSeventhPassenger by Angie Rowe | @AngieRo11834181 | @PoolbegBooks

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne11th July 2023Leave a comment

‘When the Titanic sinks it takes with it the crime scene, the witnesses and possibly the murderer’– The Seventh Passenger [ About The Seventh Passenger ] The Titanic’s last stop is at Queenstown, Ireland, where seven first-class passengers disembark. Soon after continuing its voyage, the body of a man linked to the doomed liner is…

#BookReview of #AfterThatNight by Karin Slaughter

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne10th July 20232 Comments

‘Featuring investigator Will Trent and medical examiner Sara Linton’– After That Night [ About After That Night ] After that night, nothing was ever the same again … Fifteen years ago, Sara Linton’s life changed forever when a celebratory night out ended in a violent attack that tore her world apart. Since then, Sara has…

#BookReview of #TheRachelIncident by Caroline O’ Donoghue

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne3rd July 20232 Comments

“I saw James as extremely advanced, a person who had interrogated all sides of his soul. He was too emotionally intelligent to get stuck in the doldrums of what music or behaviour seemed gay or straight. In that moment, he wasn’t just a person to me. He was the future of people.”– The Rachel Incident…

#BookReview of #TheMoonGate by @AmandaGeard

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne30th June 20234 Comments

‘A faded photograph. An abandoned house. A wartime secret . . .‘ [ About The Moon Gate ] 1939: On the eve of war, young English heiress Grace Grey travels from London to the wilderness of Tasmania. Coaxed out of her shell by the attentions of her Irish neighbour, Daniel – Grace finally learns to live.…

#BookReview of #ThePaperMan by Billy O’ Callaghan @billythescribe

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne26th June 20234 Comments

‘An unforgettable and sweeping interwar love story, from the Costa-shortlisted and bestselling Irish author of Life Sentences’ – The Paper Man, Publisher Quote [ About The Paper Man ] 1980s Cork. Jack Shine discovers a shoe box full of love letters in his mother’s belongings. Rebekah came to Cork alone as a young Jewish refugee from…

#BookReview of #TheBeeSting by Paul Murray

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne22nd June 2023Leave a comment

‘WINNER OF THE IRISH BOOK AWARDS EASON NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2023Winner of the Nero Gold Prize, Book of the Year 2023– The Bee Sting [ About The Bee Sting ] The Barnes family is in trouble. Dickie’s once-lucrative car business is going under – but rather than face the music, he’s spending his days…

#BookReview of #NoOneSawaThing by Andrea Mara @AndreaMaraBooks

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne20th June 20236 Comments

‘Two children get on the train. Only one gets off…‘– No One Saw a Thing [ About No One Saw a Thing ] No one saw it happen.You stand on a crowded tube platform in London. Your two little girls jump on the train ahead of you. As you try to join them, the doors…

#BookReview of #TheLastLifeboat by @HazelGaynor | @HCinIreland

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne30th May 20236 Comments

‘Captures the little-known story of the evacuees sent away by sea during WW2’– The Last Lifeboat [ About The Last Lifeboat ] Liverpool 1940. Alice King stands on the deck of SS Carlisle, waiting to escort a group of children to Canada as overseas evacuees. She is finally doing her bit for the war. In…

#BookReview of #FallingAnimals by Sheila Armstrong | @Sheela_no_gig | @BloomsburyBooks

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne25th May 20234 Comments

‘The disquieting story of an unidentified man as told by those who crossed paths with him on the last day of his life‘– Falling Animals [ About Falling Animals ] On an isolated beach set against a lonely, windswept coastline, a pale figure sits serenely against a sand dune staring out to sea. His hands…

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