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#BookReview | #MissBensonsBeetle by Rachel Joyce | @DoubledayUK | @RandomTTours

Blog Tour, Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne22nd July 20206 Comments

“This is quintessential Joyce: at once poignant and playful, with huge heart and the same resonance, truth and lightness of touch as her phenomenallysuccessful debut, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry.” – Miss Benson’s Beetle [ About the Book ] It is 1950, two unlikely women set off on a hare-brained adventureto the other side…

#Bookreview | #Expectation by @Anna_Hope

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne8th July 20206 Comments

‘What happened to the women we were supposed to become?’– Expectation [ Book Description ] Hannah, Cate and Lissa are young, vibrant and inseparable. Living on the edge of a common in East London, their shared world is ablaze with art and activism, romance and revelry – and the promise of everything to come. They…

#BookReview | #LIAR by @LesleyPearse | @MichaelJBooks | @ed_pr | #BlogTour | #LoveLesley

Blog Tour, Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne1st July 20202 Comments

‘Amelia White dreams of being a reporter. The closest she’s come is selling advertising in the local paper until the fateful day she stumbles on a shocking scoop’– LIAR [ Book Description ] 1970s, West London, a time of 3-day weeks, power cuts and dustmen strikes Amelia White has always dreamed of being a reporter…

#BookReview | #TheSightOfYou by @ByHollyMiller | @HodderBooks

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne21st May 20206 Comments

‘Would you choose LOVE…If you knew how it would END?’– The Sight of You [ About the Book ] Joel is afraid of the future.Since he was a child he’s been haunted by dreams about the people he loves. Visions of what’s going to happen – the good and the bad. And the only way…

#GuestPost | “Pandemically seeking rest” by Judith Cuffe | Sing Me Home OUT NOW with @PoolbegBooks | @MiddleJudy

Guest PostBy Mairéad Hearne20th May 2020Leave a comment

‘A story of the aftermath, of picking up the pieces, of finding yourself again and discovering that life isn’t always easy . . . it’s not meant to be, but it can be worth it.‘~ Sing Me Home Sing Me Home is the latest novel from Irish writer Judith Cuffe. It is the second book…

#BookReview | #SeasonOfSecondChances by Aimee Alexander @denisedeegan

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne12th May 20205 Comments

‘When leaving is just the beginning… ‘Season of Second Chances [ About the Book ] Grace Sullivan flees Dublin with her two teenage children, returning to the sleepy West Cork village where she grew up. No one in Killrowan knows what Grace is running from – or that she’s even running. She’d like to keep it…

#BookReview | #TheIslandGirls by @NoelleHarrison | @bookouture

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne22nd April 20202 Comments

‘She’d been steadily drifting further and further away from her life before. She would never get it back. She knew that. But maybe her destination was a place where she could forget, and be forgotten? This was all she wanted right now.’– The Island Girls [ About the Book ] When young nurse Emer loses her beloved…

#BookReview | #Gabriella by @BellCaragh | @PoolbegBooks

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne20th April 2020Leave a comment

‘America’s answer to Coco ChanelThat was the dream and nothing would stand in her way’– Gabriella [ About the Book ] ‘All she needed was one person to take notice – one person who could catapult her into the big time’ Gabriella Alvarez dreams of being the next Coco Chanel. Born in the Bronx of…

#eightandahalfstone by @LizJonesGoddess | #Spotlight | #BlogTour | @midaspr | @MJPGroup

SpotlightBy Mairéad Hearne14th April 2020Leave a comment

Inspired by her own long-term struggles with an eating disorder, Liz Jones’ debut comic novel Eight and a Half Stone is an honest look at how women view their bodies, and themselves.– Eight and a Half Stone I am delighted to be on tour today with Eight and a Half Stone by author, and renowned columnist, Liz Jones. It…

#BookReview | #MyPearShapedLife by Carmel Harrington |@HappyMrsH | @HCinIreland | @HarperFiction

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne2nd April 20202 Comments

‘You don’t have to be pearfect to be happy’– My Pear-Shaped Life [ About the Book ] Meet Greta. She’s funny. She’s flawed. She’s hiding so much behind her big smile she’s forgotten who she is. But Greta is about to discover that the key to being happy is…being you. Greta Gale has played the part of…

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