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#BookReview of #IntensiveCare – A Memoir by Dr Suzanne Crowe | @itsthatgirlsuzi | @HachetteIre

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne8th September 2025Leave a comment

‘A doctor’s story of healing, heartbreak and hope in Irish children’s healthcare’– Intensive Care: A Memoir [ About Intensive Care ] IT ALL RESTS ON A STORY. THIS IS ONE YOU WON’T FORGET In these pages, Dr Suzanne Crowe opens the doors to a world few ever the charged and fragile realm of paediatric intensive care.…

#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 #PaperHeart by Cecelia Ahern

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne19th August 20252 Comments

‘Pip’s world is small. But it’s about to become a whole lot bigger.‘ [ About Paper Heart ] For years she’s tucked away her dreams, shrinking herself into the space left behind – like the delicate origami she creates alone in her room. Then hope comes from an unlikely place: an astronomer from the local…

#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 #TheGoodMistress by Anne Tiernan

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne31st July 20254 Comments

‘That’s it, it’s all she gets. Fragments. Discarded scenes she rescues from the cutting-room floor that she replays, knows by heart’– The Good Mistress [ About The Good Mistress ] The affair is over – so what does she have to lose? Juliet never planned to be the other woman, but Rory was the only…

#BookReview of #InPlainSight by @JosephCBirchall | @PoolbegBooks

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne1st July 20251 Comment

‘She gazed at the red line that ran along the circumference of the woman’s neck, the laceration open slightly like a small crevice in the snow. The woman’s face was paler than her short blonde hair, her blue eyes frozen in a stare as if caught in a photograph. They stared away and behind Darcy…

#BookReview of #TheCountingGame by Sinéad Nolan

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne30th June 2025Leave a comment

Into the woods.Count to ten.Only one of us comes home again.– The Counting Game [ About The Counting Game ] 1995, Ireland. Panic grips the village of Drumsuin when a teenage girl goes missing in the nearby forest. Saoirse is not the first girl to disappear in those woods. And when it’s revealed she was…

#BookReview of The (Wonderful) Life of Connie Maguire by Domhnall O’Donoghue

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne25th June 2025Leave a comment

‘Connie Maguire jolts awake, gasping for air. She scans the bedroom. The wallpaper, mould and a list on the door – rules for this guesthouse on Dublin’s Gardiner Street…’– The (Wonderful) Life of Connie Maguire [ About The (Wonderful) Life of Connie Maguire ] Connie Maguire has always lived in the shadows. Battling low self-esteem,…

#BookReview of #OurSong by Anna Carey

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne12th June 20251 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…

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