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Night Boat to Tangier by Kevin Barry | @canongatebooks

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne22nd July 20197 Comments

‘Maurice Hearne and Charlie Redmond sit on a bench just a few yards west of the hatch. They are in their low fifties. The years are rolling out like the tide now. There is old weather on their faces, on the hard lines of their jaws, on their chaotic mouths. But they retain – just…

#BookReview #KilbrideHouse by @SheilaForsey | @PoolbegBooks

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne25th June 20192 Comments

‘The Truth Cannot Lie Untold….’ [ About the Book] A STORY OF ENDURING LOVE, SIBLING LOYALTY AND A SECRET PACT THAT LASTS A LIFETIME Kilbride House is set on the mystical Dingle Peninsula. Victoria Goulding, a Protestant, falls in love with Canice Meagher, born on the Blasket Islands and a Roman Catholic. To be together…

#BookReview | #TheOutsider by Emily Hourican |@EmilyH71 |@HachetteIre

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne14th June 20192 Comments

Two very different families…..One is loud, eccentric, rich and confident.The other is less sure of their place in life. [ About the Book ] On holidays in Portugal, a near-drowning brings the ten-year-old daughters, Jamie and Sarah, together and a friendship is formed.As the bond between the girls grows deeper, so too do the ties…

#BookReview | #ForgetMeNot by @ClaireAllan | #BlogTour with @AvonBooksUK |

Blog Tour, Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne10th June 20194 Comments

I disappeared on a Wednesday afternoon.I was there one minute and the next I was gone….. [ About the Book ] It’s six in the morning during the hottest summer on record when Elizabeth O’Loughlin, out walking her dog, comes across Clare, a victim of a horrific knife attack, clinging onto life at the side…

#HerHusbandsMistake by @sheilaoflanagan |@headlinepg | #RandomThingsTours

Blog Tour, Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne28th May 20194 Comments

Should a woman be ready to forgive and forget to save her marriage? Roxy’s not so sure… Her Husband’s Mistake [ About the Book ] Roxy’s marriage has always been rock solid. After twenty years, and with two carefree kids, she and Dave are still the perfect couple. Until the day she comes home unexpectedly,…

#TheFirstRoseOfTralee by Patricia O’ Reilly | @PatriciaDublin | @PoolbegBooks

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne10th May 20195 Comments

‘She was lovely and fair as the rose of the summerYet ’twas not her beauty alone that won meOh no ’twas the truth in her eyes ever dawningthat made me love Mary, the Rose of Tralee’ ‘The love story that inspired Ireland’s famous festival’ [ About the Book ] Mary O’Connor, beautiful daughter of the…

All in a Doctor’s Day by Dr Lucia Gannon | @LuciaGannon | @Gill_Books

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne1st May 20192 Comments

Medicine has limits.Human kindness does not. [ About the Book ] Arriving in the small village of Killenaule, Co. Tipperary – husband and children in tow – Dr Lucia Gannon was a blow-in determined to build a practice that would provide solace for the sick, worried and confused. Journey with her as she builds a…

#BookReview | The Heart’s Invisible Furies by John Boyne

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne12th April 20196 Comments

Cyril Avery is not a real Avery or at least that’s what his adoptive parents tell him. And he never will be. But if he isn’t a real Avery, then who is he? [ About the Book ] Born out of wedlock to a teenage girl cast out from her rural Irish community and adopted by…

#BlackWood by Derek Flynn | @DerekFlynn03 | #BookReview

Blog Tour, Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne10th April 2019Leave a comment

‘The deeper you go, the darker your intent’ [ About the Book ] “How far would you go to get out?” This is the question three unlikely friends living in a dead-end town in America ask each other. The answer would come to haunt them.The narrator is a writer in his late 30s, eking out…

#CruelActs by @JaneCaseyAuthor | #BookReview|@HCinIreland

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne4th April 20194 Comments

They said he was a serial killer…But now they’ve set him free.HOW CAN YOU SPOT A MURDERER? [ About the Book ] Leo Stone is a ruthless killer – or the victim of a miscarriage of justice. A year ago, he was convicted of the murder of two women and sentenced to life in prison.…

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