The City Girls are back! Devlin, whose flair and ambition ensure continued success for her City Girl health and leisure complex, has to make up her mind about her relationship with Luke. Caroline, faced with difficult choices, makes a surprising decision that utterly changes her life. Maggi...
Devlin, Caroline and Maggie. Women in their prime. They have it all. Careers. Success. Marriage. They are the envy of their peers. But at what price? Just when Devlin has everything she has ever dreamed of, a callous betrayal shows her that there's no room for friendship and loyalty in business....
Cassie, Laura, and Aileen were schoolmates and best friends, sharing the passions, problems, and aspirations of young women coming into their own. Cassie put her life on hold to attend to her family's needs while Laura and Aileen soared in their careers. Now they were together again as Cassie dar...
Francesca Kirwan's comfortable, uneventful life is turned upside down one afternoon when she discovers that her husband is having an affair. Facing a very uncertain future, she decides to get a life: new job, new friends, new lifestyle...maybe even a new man. But it's not until Francesca decides ...
Shauna and Greg's marriage is under pressure. She wants another baby. He doesn't. She also has to endure her obnoxious in-laws, 'The Freeloaders', Della, Eddie and their spoilt kids. They arrive at her home at the drop of a hat, stay as long as they like, and eat and drink all around them without...
Tony O'Neill is not having a good day. He isunemployed and broke, with a wife and child to support. Even worse, he's living with his snobbish mother-in-law. They don't get along. Bridie Feeney is mad. She's just had a fight with her son-in-law and daughter. Bitter words have been spoken. But she ...
She did a double take. Nine stone five! She’d lost almost four pounds this week so far. She hugged herself with delight. Just wait until Martin O’Brien saw her in her jeans, the smart alec creep. She hated Martin O’Brien with a deep and burning hatred. Were the gates of he...
‘Thank you, darling. Wipe your chin, pet, you’ve got gravy running down it.’ Esther handed her granddaughter a paper napkin. ‘Grandad, will you make a lake for me?’ Five-year-old Ellie nudged her grandfather in the ribs. ‘Of course I will. Give me y...
. . and needless to say, Niall, I’ll be in the right place to keep an eye open for investment opportunities and I can give you the nod!’ Des scraped the last bit of strawberry roulade from his dish and ate it with relish. ‘Is that not considered to be insider trading?’ Nia...
She had burnt her breakfast because of him. She was very angry. Just who did Tony think he was? You’d think he’d be a bit grateful to her mother for taking them in. For helping out when they were stuck. And they were stuck. Beggars couldn’t be choosers. Her mother’s generosity had eased their fin...
Melissa was the centre of the universe in her own eyes. Or, as Denise cruelly called her, the Queen of the Me, Me, Me Planet. She was an only child, spoilt by doting parents. Melissa swanned through life taking adoration as her due. In Sophie, she had the perfect handmaiden. It had been so from t...
She took a deep breath and fixed a smile on her face. She hadn’t seen him to talk to since that fraught meeting in her sitting room the previous year.‘Terence, how are you?’ she greeted him politely. ‘Isn’t it great news about Valerie and the baby? Thank God it all went well for her. We’re going ...
She was wearing strappy high-heeled sandals and her feet were killing her. At least her black skin-tight leather trousers protected her legs from the nippy breeze and drizzly rain, but her hair was getting wet and her red boxy jacket and white T-shirt were not really suitable clothing for a dank,...
It was like a huge weight on her shoulders. She was dreading it. She stopped listening. She thought about Robbie Williams instead. Later, the teacher told the class to take out their maths books. Ciara always felt like a dunce when she tried to do maths. She was going to stay with her friend Sara...
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO ‘Mum’s looking for a divorce?! When did she tell you that?’ Aimee couldn’t believe her ears at the news her father had just imparted. ‘Last night. I flew out to the villa to discuss things in a reasonable ma—’ ‘You’re in Spain!’ Aimee exclaimed. ‘Yes, yes,’ her father said impa...
Fantastic! We’ll have to get together. You’ll have to come over for a meal.’ Izzy Reynolds injected a note of false gaiety into her voice as she spoke to Mari Clancy, an old schoolfriend who was ringing from Dubai. ‘Is Brett coming with you?’ ‘Er . . . no, not this year. Things are a bit crazy at...
I just know it,’ Paula moaned as she struggled to remember the theorem she’d learned off by heart twenty minutes ago. ‘Whoever invented the Leaving Cert should be strung up by the goolies,’ Jennifer muttered as she fretted over a balance sheet that would not tally. &...