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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 | 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 | 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 |#FullOfGrace by Orla McAlinden | @OrlaMcAWrites | @RedStagBooks

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne28th August 20192 Comments

‘In the seconds before the visitor pulls a balaclava over his five o’ clock shadow you already know he is bad news. A solitary figure slouching up the long farm path, no friendly wave, no shouted greeting. Skin-tight denim – drainpipes, your father would have called them. No dungarees, no boiler suit. You know this…

#BookReview | #IHaveSinned by Caimh McDonnell | #McGarryStateside Book 2 | @Caimh | @McFori_Ink

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne23rd August 20195 Comments

‘Nothing is ever easy‘ – I Have Sinned [ About the Book ] Bunny McGarry has finally got a lead in his mission to find the Sisters of the Saint but the lead, one Father Gabriel de Marcos, isn’t willing to play ball. Desperate times call for desperate measures and Bunny has to put the…

#BookReview | #IConfess by Alex Barclay | @alexbarcs | @HCinIreland

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne21st August 20197 Comments

Seven friends.One killer.No escape….– I Confess [ About the Book ] A group of childhood friends are reunited at a luxury inn on a remote west coast peninsula in Ireland. But as a storm builds outside, the dark events that marred their childhoods threaten to resurface. And when a body is discovered, the group faces…

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