Praise for Girl in the Making ‘Devastating’ Anne Enright ‘Beautiful’ Louise Nealon ‘Magnificent‘ Aingeala Flannery ‘Masterful‘ Kathleen MacMahon [ About Girl in the Making ] Jean Kennedy is a gentle, perceptive girl growing up in a very strange world: suburban Dublin in the 1970s and ’80s. In the company of her mother, her Aunty Ida,…
Three women. Three different stages of life. United by one thing: the chance to start again.– The Ladies Midnight Swimming Club [ About the Book ] When Elizabeth’s husband dies, leaving her with crippling debt, the only person she can turn to is her friend, Jo. Soon Jo has called in her daughter, Lucy, to…
‘Who’s next to say I do and die?’– The Bride Collector [ About the Book ] Something old, something new Winter brings more than fierce Atlantic storms to the thriving tourist town of Kylebeggan in County Kerry. On a cold January night, a woman is murdered and laid out in her wedding dress on her…
‘Four women in a close-knit community are thrust into the harsh spotlight when a young child goes missing’– All Her Fault [ About the Book ] ONE MISSING BOY. Marissa Irvine arrives at 14 Tudor Grove, expecting to pick up her young son Milo from his first playdate with a boy at his new school.…
‘She picketed Mass with a sign that read: “They killed my baby in Bessborough”’– Fallen [ About Fallen] When Michael Connolly was a child in the 1970s, his mother told him about all the things that happened to her in that place. All that the nuns had done. The doctors encouraged her to talk, and…
‘A young woman can hear the dead – a talent which is both a gift and a curse’– Listening Still [ About The Book ] Jeanie Masterson has a gift: she can hear the recently dead and give voice to their final wishes and revelations. Inherited from her father, this gift has enabled the family…
“His name was Joseph, but for years they had called him Panenka, a name that was his sadness and his story” [ About the Book ] Panenka has spent 25 years living with the disastrous mistakes of his past, which have made him an exile in his home town and cost him his dearest relationships.…
‘AN OBSERVER, GRAZIA, IRISH TIMES AND IRISH INDEPENDENT HIGHLIGHT FOR 2021‘– Bright Burning Things [ About the Book ] Being Tommy’s mother is too much for Sonya. Too much love, too much fear, too much longing for the cool wine she gulps from the bottle each night. Because Sonya is burning the fish fingers, and driving too fast, and swimming too…
In a web of lies, who can you trust?– Blinding Lies [ About the Book ] Ten years ago, Anna Clarke’s parents disappeared. The mystery haunts her, and she hopes her job in a busy city Garda Station will one day help her find answers. The case of a man shot dead crosses her desk…
‘Sometimes you have to confront your past before you can work out the shape of the future…’– Make Yourself At Home [ About the Book ] When Marianne’s carefully constructed life and marriage fall apart, she is forced to return to Ancaire, the ramshackle seaside house perched high on a cliff by the Irish Sea.…