'Insightful and touching but jovial at the same time.' Nadiya Hussain'A delightful roller-coaster ride of emotion.' Sunday Independent___Here is a truth that can't be escaped: for Mia 'Rabbit' Hayes, life is coming to an end . . .Rabbit Hayes loves her life, ordinary as it is, and the extraordinary people in it.She loves her spirited daughter, Juliet; her colourful, unruly family; the only man...

‘A writer at the top of her game' Jo SpainHow did a young reveller end up in a remote grave?Newly arrived in Dublin city, Garda Mary Shea is eager to impress her boss, major crimes lead Matt Foley. He took a chance bringing her into his team and she wants to prove her mettle.When a woman's battered body is found in the Wicklow mountains, Mary traces her identity through missing persons reports and learns the victim was last seen on the night she ...

The murder of an innocent shakes Ireland to its core.One cold January morning in 1980, on a beach in Kerry, the body of a newborn baby is found in its most sheltered sand dune. Local Garda Mary Shea is first on the scene.Such a case calls for more than small town policing, and the Dublin major crimes team is brought in to take charge. But there's a way of doing things in Kerry, one which Mary understands well. And when she is able to get crucial female witnesses to cooper...

Tick, tock . . .Workaholic Eve Hayes is burnt out and lonely. At the age of thirty-eight, she’s afraid she has allowed the chance of a real and worthwhile life pass her by.Lilly Donovan got married too young and over the years she's become a prisoner and slave in her own home.Eve survives a horrific car accident only to be reunited with her old friend, Lily. A long time ago these two women were inseparable but the events of one terrible night ended their friendship a...

Ever get the feeling you don’t really belong in your family, that you’re completely different to your relatives?That’s how 30-year-old interior decorator Harri Ryan has felt since she was a child despite being close to George, her twin brother, and loving parents Gloria and Duncan.It’s the second time Harri has tried to marry her fiancé James, and the second time she’s had a panic attack, ended up in hospital in her wedding dress and the celebrations have to be called off.

Fans of Marian Keyes and Jojo Moyes will love Apart From the Crowd, a heart-breaking and complex story of love and friendship from award-nominated author, Anna McPartlin.Five lost souls in search of redemption . . .To outsiders it looks as if Mary was born unlucky, but despite everything she has lost - even her little boy - deep down Mary believes in a happy ending. She just needs someone to remind her.Mary's friend P...

'A touching story of friendship, courage and love ... we couldn't put it down' CloserTwice Harri tries to marry the love of her life.Twice she fails.Since there are only so many times she can leave her man standing at the altar, Harri loses him.On top of that, as she battles the panic attacks that have stopped her getting married, Harri discovers that everything she understood about he...

Fans of Marian Keyes and Jojo Moyes will love So What If I'm Broken, a heart-breaking and complex story of love and friendship from award-nominated author, Anna McPartlin.Once Jane and Alexandra were inseparable - sharing adventures, secrets and big dreams for the future. But when Jane got pregnant at seventeen, they drifted apart.Seventeen years later, Jane discovers Alexandra has disappeared and she sets about helping Alex...

Combining Marian Keyes' ability to mix darkness and light, and adding a unique twist of her own, Anna McPartlin shot to the top of the Irish bestseller chart with her first book, Pack Up The Moon. The award-nominated novel invites you to think about a heartbreaking question: how do you survive the death of your partner.When her boyfriend John dies in a dreadful accident, his girlfriend Emma is plunged into despair.Emma loved John more than l...

If you laughed and cried reading Anna McPartlin's bestselling story The Last Days of Rabbit Hayes or Alice Oseman's Heartstopper, then Somewhere Inside of Happy will have you smiling and tearful all over again.-----------------'And just like that my boy was gone.'Maisie Brennan is standing on a podium on the twentieth anniversary of the death of her son, trying to find the first breath that will help her start talki...

In a little Irish town like Kenmare, there's no need to worry whether people will discover your secrets. They already have.For Mary, that means being remembered for her tragic losses, even if she'd rather get on with her life. For her cousin Ivan, as close as a brother, the gossip is all about how his wife took the kids and ran off with her new lover. For Mary's friend Penny, it's an old romance that didn't work out quite right, and a current affair with a bottle of vodka.T...

On the 21st June 2007 Alexandra Kavanagh left home,chatted to her neighbour, got onto the DART, arrived at Dalkey train station and disappeared . . .Tom is distraught. His wife is missing, his world has fallen apart and his only focus is on finding her.For seventeen years, Jane has cared for her son Kurt, her eccentric sister Elle, and her cantankerous mother Rose.The only person she doesn’t care for is herself.Elle is an artist and recognised as a g...