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#BookReview of #BeforeDorothy by Hazel Gaynor

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne19th June 20256 Comments

‘Long before Dorothy visits Oz, her aunt, Emily Gale, sets off on her own unforgettable adventure much closer to home…‘– Before Dorothy [ About Before Dorothy ] When news reaches Kansas that her beloved sister has tragically died, Emily Gale must become a mother overnight. Her sister’s orphaned child, Dorothy, desperately needs a home. But…

#BookReview of #OurSong by Anna Carey

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne12th June 2025Leave a comment

IT’S TIME TO FINISH WHAT THEY STARTED . . .– Our Song [ About Our Song ] Laura used to have big dreams, but she gave them up – because that’s what grown-ups do. Trying to turn her love of music into a career would have been absolutely ridiculous. But when she hears one of…

#BookReview of #Whistle by Linwood Barclay

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne6th June 20254 Comments

‘A woman and her young son move to a small town looking for a fresh start, only to be haunted by disturbing events and strange visions when they find a mysterious train set in a storage shed.‘– Whistle [ About Whistle ] Celebrated children’s author and illustrator Annie Blunt has had a dreadful year. Her…

#BookReview of #SpeakToMeOfHome by Jeanine Cummins

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne23rd May 20254 Comments

‘Why hadn’t she said to her daughter I love you beyond reason and none of this matters at all and every day that you breathe is a gift?’– Speak To Me Of Home [ About Speak To Me Of Home ] Rafaela remembers everything that matters: her beautiful childhood in San Juan, her marriage to Peter,…

#BookReview of #WritersAnonymous by William Wall | @NewIslandBooks |

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne14th April 20254 Comments

‘In the summer of 1980, a lonely boy is found murdered in the graveyard of his quiet fishing town. Forty years later, a writer finds himself forced to confront the one story he’s refused all his life to tell.‘– Writers Anonymous [ About Writers Anonymous ] Fighting off the boredom of lockdown, acclaimed author Jim…

#BookReview of #TheDeathOfUs by Abigail Dean | @Hemlock_Press

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne10th April 20252 Comments

‘This is a story of murder. This is a story of survival. But most of all, this is a story of love.‘– The Death of Us [ About The Death of Us ] It’s the story everyone wants to hear. That spring night in South London, when Isabel and Edward’s lives were torn apart. The…

#BookReview of #TheBridgeToAlways by Lynda Marron | @eriu_books | @lyndamarron.bsky.social

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne2nd April 20252 Comments

‘My mother was a cantankerous wagon. She was a pig-headed woman who never listened to a word of advice. She held everyone around her to impossibly high standards. She held herself to impossibly high standards. She was her own worst enemy, and mine. She disagreed with every word I said. She crossed me at every…

#BookReview of #TheSeventhBody by @catherinekirwan | @catherinekirwanbks.bsky.social | @HachetteIre

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne20th March 20251 Comment

‘The Truth Never Stays Buried’– The Seventh Body [ About The Seventh Body ] When six human bodies are discovered, building work on a derelict site in Cork grinds to a halt. And then a seventh is discovered. Although the first six are men who died centuries ago, the seventh body is different – female,…

#BookReview of #ADeathInBerlin by @SimonScarrow | @headlinepg | @soph_ransompr

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne11th March 2025Leave a comment

A gripping new World War 2 thriller from the bestselling authorA Death in Berlin [ About A Death in Berlin ] BERLIN. MAY 1940. AS HITLER PREPARES TO INVADE WESTERN EUROPE, THERE IS BLOODSHED CLOSER TO HOME CI Horst Schenke is an investigator with the Kripo unit. Powerless against the consequences of the war, he…

#BookReview of #TheTokyoSuite by Giovana Madalosso | @EuropaEdUK

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne4th March 20252 Comments

‘The Tokyo Suite is the English-Language debut of one of Brazil’s most exciting authors’ – Europa Editions [ About The Tokyo Suite ] A good nanny is hard to find. Fernanda, a busy executive whose marriage is foundering, has a room in her sprawling house redecorated in the style of a tiny luxury hotel room,…

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