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#BookReview of #Bessborough by Deirdre Finnerty | @deefinnerty @HachetteIre

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne9th May 2022Leave a comment

‘Three Women.Three Decades.Three Stories of Courage.’ [ About the Book ] For over seventy years, Bessborough House, a grand country mansion on the outskirts of Cork city, operated as one of Ireland’s biggest mother and baby institutions. Women and girls who walked up its stone steps were warned never to reveal their true identities and…

#BookReview of #TheyAllLied by Louise Phillips

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne4th May 20221 Comment

TRUTH OR DAREOne day Evie was there, and then she was goneOne day Becca was there, and now she is gone too. Will Nadine be able to save her daughter before it’s too late?– They All Lied [ About the Book ] When Nadine Fitzmaurice, a manager in an insurance company, gets a distressed phone…

#BookReview of #Elektra by Jennifer Saint | @jennysaint | @Wildfirebks

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne29th April 20222 Comments

‘IN A WORLD RULED BY GODS AND HEROES, THE VOICES OF STRONG WOMEN HAVE BEEN SILENCED.UNTIL NOW’– ELEKTRA [ About the Book ] The House of Atreus is cursed. A bloodline tainted by a generational cycle of violence and vengeance. This is the story of three women, their fates inextricably tied to this curse, and…

#TheVanishingTriangle by Claire McGowan – Q & A | @inkstainsclaire @AmazonPub #QandA

Q & ABy Mairéad Hearne25th April 20222 Comments

The Vanishing Triangle: The Murdered Women Ireland Forgot The Vanishing Triangle: The Murdered Women Ireland Forgot, by Claire McGowan, will be published by Little A, 1st May 2022. Described as ‘an insightful sensitively drawn account’, it focuses on the tragedy of the eight women who went missing from an area around Dublin between 1993 and 1998. I…

#BookReview of #EdithAndKim by Charlotte Philby | @PhilbyWrites @BoroughPress

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne7th April 2022Leave a comment

‘To betray, you must first belong…‘Edith and Kim [ About the Book ] In June 1934, Kim Philby met his Soviet handler, the spy Arnold Deutsch. The woman who introduced them was called Edith Tudor-Hart. She changed the course of 20th century history. Then she was written out of it. Drawing on the Secret Intelligence…

#BookReview of #TheMagician by Colm Tóibín

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne5th April 20225 Comments

‘”Papa is a magician”, he said.“He is the Magician!” Erika repeated.From being a joke, or a way of cheering the table up, the new soubriquet for their father stuck. Erika encouraged all visitors to join her in giving her father this new name’– The Magician [ About the Book ] The Magician tells the story of…

#BookReview of  #TheClub by @ElleryLLoyd | @MantleBooks 

Blog Tour, Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne1st April 20224 Comments

‘It was the club you’d kill to join; the launch event to which the A-list were dying to be invited. What no one could have anticipated was how tragically things were about to go wrong’– The Club [ About the Book ] There’s no place like Home . . . The Home Group is a…

#BookReview of #Faceless by @vandasymon | @OrendaBooks

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne29th March 20222 Comments

‘A stressed, middle-aged man picks up a teenage escort and commits an unspeakable crime, unaware that a homeless man – her only real friend – will do anything to find her.‘– Faceless [ About the Book ] Worn down by a job he hates, and a stressful family life, middle-aged, middle-class Bradley picks up a…

#BookReview of #DuffyAndSon by Damien Owens @OwensDamien | @HCinIreland

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne23rd March 20224 Comments

‘A heart-warming and hilarious novel about life, love, and the weight of all we leave unsaid’ – Duffy and Son [ About the Book ] Eugene Duffy is turning 70; his son Jim is turning 40. For decades now, they’ve been running the family hardware shop and living in good-natured bachelor harmony. But time is marching…

#BookReview of #TheNurse by @ClaireAllan @AvonBooksUK

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne22nd March 20222 Comments

‘Everyone has a secret.But some are worse than you could ever imagine.’ [ About the Book ] Someone is watching her. She just doesn’t know it yet. Nell Sweeney has led an ordinary life. Every day she walks to and from the hospital where she works as a nurse, believing that no harm can befall her.…

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