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#BookReview of #DeadlyEvidence by Marie Cassidy

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne29th September 20252 Comments

STATE PATHOLOGIST TERRY O’BRIEN IS ABOUT TO TAKE ON HER TOUGHEST ROLE YET.– Deadly Evidence [ About Deadly Evidence ] Tasked with leading the Open Case Review Unit, her usual post-mortem work has been extended to cold-case investigation into unsolved suspicious deaths. When a garda detective is murdered, his body mutilated and dumped on gangland…

#BookReview of #WildSwans: Three Daughter of China by Jung Chang

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne26th September 20253 Comments

OVER 13M COPIES SOLD THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING PHENOMENON NUMBER 8 ON SUNDAY TIMES BEST OF THE BESTSELLER LIST– WILD SWANS: THREE DAUGHTERS OF CHINA [ About Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China ] In Wild Swans Jung Chang recounts the evocative, unsettling, and insistently gripping story of how three generations of women in her family fared in…

#BookReview of #ThisWasntMeantToHappen by Ali Harris

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne1st September 2025Leave a comment

‘For anyone who has ever lost, longed, or held on when letting go felt impossible.Inspired by her own experience, This Wasn’t Meant to Happen is Ali Harris’s exploration of grief and recovery’ [ About This Wasn’t Meant to Happen ] This wasn’t meant to happen. But it did. Sofie Jensen has always lived by logic…

#BookReview of #SuchAGoodCouple by Sophie White

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne25th August 20252 Comments

‘A sharply funny and heartfelt novel from the bestselling author of My Hot Friend ‘– Such a Good Couple [ About Such a Good Couple ] SIX FRIENDS. THREE COUPLES. ONE HOLIDAY THAT WILL RUIN EVERYTHING . . . MAGGIE’S LIFE HAS NEVER LOOKED BETTER.She has a superstar husband, a Hollywood mansion and a stylist on call.…

#BookReview of #FunAndGames by John Patrick McHugh

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne11th August 20252 Comments

‘A stunning debut novel following a teenage boy as he comes of age on the west coast of Ireland’– Fun and Games [ About Fun and Games ] Seventeen-year-old John Masterson has no idea what he wants. It’s his last summer on the small island where he has grown up and he should be enjoying…

#BookReview of The Language of Remembering by Patrick Holloway | @hollowaywriter2 | @Epoque_Press

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne7th August 2025Leave a comment

‘You do not say anything but want to get up and run out of the house. The sitting room is the same as it was twenty years ago, you sit in the same armchair, your mother sits in the same place, the windows look out on the same houses, yet everything is different, and it…

#BookReview of #MyOtherHeart by Emma Nanami Strenner | @HutchHeinemann

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne3rd July 2025Leave a comment

‘Mimi Truang did not yet know that her baby was gone. She sat back and closed her eyes, coffee in hand.’– My Other Heart [ About My Other Heart ] May 1998: Mimi Traung and her baby daughter Ngan wait restlessly at the gates of Philadelphia airport. There is still a day’s travelling left before…

#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…

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