It took me a long while to get into this book and I think I only persevered because I had someone say how good a writer and how well she managed relationships. For a long while I wasn’t a bit convinced and almost gave up a few times. I didn’t find the character of Sheridan particularly engaging. ...
This was a reasonable read. It was a bit drawn out and I found myself skipping pages here and there.I had no time for Deanna, Lainey's mum who literally left Lainey with her grandparents as a baby without any discusssion with the grandparents. Not to mention that she fled Ireland and headed to Am...
A few years earlier, he’d sold the Bachelors Walk apartment and bought the small but ideally located town house in Mount Merrion. It had been an excellent purchase. The entire family used the house whenever they came to Dublin, and Brendan himself always stayed there when he came to the capital f...
She frequently asked herself that question and just as frequently feared that she’d been wanting in a lot of respects. And yet, she thought, she’d raised them to be independent people, able to cope with life on their own. Even Steffie was managing to keep her head above water with that company of...
‘A nun? A Catholic nun? That can’t be possible. She’s your mother! She’s had a child!’ ‘My mom is a widow,’ Abbey said. ‘And there’s no problem with a widowed woman who’s had a child becoming a nun, as long as the child isn’t dependent. In any event, the monastery she’s a part of isn’t exclusivel...
DJ was flexible about his working hours, sometimes not coming in until after ten but then staying late into the evening. Not a morning person, he often said, but damn good after midday. Which was true. His expression, when she walked into the office, was grim, and she knew straight away that it w...