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#BookReview of #AtTheTable by Claire Powell | @FleetReads

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne9th July 20222 Comments

“The point is, we’re all grown-ups here. You talk about us being old – how old are you two? You’re not children any more. You’re in your thirties. These things…happen”– At the Table [ About the Book ] To Nicole and Jamie Maguire, their parents seem the ideal couple – a suburban double act, happily…

#BookReview of #bluehour by Sarah Schmidt | @TinderPress | @ikillnovel

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne30th June 20224 Comments

She thinks of blue mountain, her favourite place. ‘We’re going somewhere where we can be safe. We never have to come back here.’– blue hour [ About the Book ] As the rest of the world lies sleeping, Eleanor straps her infant daughter, Amy, into the back of her car. This is the moment she knew…

#BookReview of #IDOL by Louise O’ Neill

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne28th June 2022Leave a comment

‘Follow your heart and speak your truth.’– IDOL [ About the Book ] For Samantha Miller’s young fans – her ‘girls’ – she’s everything they want to be. She’s an oracle, telling them how to live their lives, how to be happy, how to find and honour their ‘truth’. And her career is booming: she’s…

#BookReview of #TakeMyHand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne23rd June 20222 Comments

‘HISTORY REPEATS WHAT WE DON’T REMEMBER . . .‘– Take My Hand [ About the Book ] Montgomery, Alabama. 1973. Fresh out of nursing school, Civil Townsend has big plans to make a difference in her community. At the Montgomery Family Planning Clinic, she intends to help women make their own choices for their lives…

#BookReview of #GirlForgotten by Karin Slaughter

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne22nd June 20222 Comments

‘From the New York Times bestselling author of Pieces of Her, comes an electrifying thriller featuring newly minted US Marshal Andrea Oliver as she investigates a cold case with links to her father’s past.’ – Girl, Forgotten [ About the Book ] A girl with a secret… Longbill Beach, 1982. Emily Vaughn gets ready for the prom. For…

#BookReview of #TastingSunlight by Ewald Arenz | @OrendaBooks

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne15th June 2022Leave a comment

*The Breakout German Bestseller*– Tasting Sunlight [ About the Book ] Teenager Sally has just run away from a clinic where she to be treated for anorexia. She’s furious with everything and everyone, and wants to be left in peace. Liss is in her forties, living alone on a large farm that she runs single-handedly.…

#BookReview of #LifeBeforeUs by @roisinmeaney | @HachetteIre

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne15th June 20222 Comments

‘Meet George and Alice before they meet each other’– Life Before Us [ About the Book ] Three facts about GeorgeHis daughter Suzi is the best thing in his life.He thinks it might finally be time to get over Suzi’s mum.He’s never tried online dating but there’s a first time for everything. Three facts about…

#BookReview of #FactoryGirls by @michellegallen| @johnmurrays

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne9th June 20222 Comments

‘The brand new novel from the Costa-shortlisted author of Big Girl, Small Town’– Factory Girls [ About the Book ] Smart-mouthed and filthy-minded, Maeve Murray has always felt like an outsider in the shitty wee town in Northern Ireland that she calls home. She hopes her exam results will be her ticket to a new…

#BookReview of #Crookedwood by Liza Costello @as_in_Leeza | @HachetteIre

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne8th June 20222 Comments

ONE PERSON’S BANISHED MEMORY IS ANOTHER’S UNFINISHED BUSINESS– Crookedwood [ About the Book ] Crookedwood, quiet Irish midlands town, place of secrets, past and present. Sarah left it behind years ago for life in the city, where she’s now a rising star of the Dublin culinary scene. She’s home to help her mother sell the…

#BookReview of #KeepHerSweet by Helen Fitzgerald

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne2nd June 20223 Comments

‘This is not just sibling rivalry.This is a murder waiting to happen.‘– Keep Her Sweet [ About the Book ] Desperate to enjoy their empty nest, Penny and Andeep downsize to the countryside, to forage, upcycle and fall in love again, only to be joined by their two twenty-something daughters, Asha and Camille. Living on…

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