Author's product rating: 
| Advantages: |
A good read |
| Disadvantages: |
Everyone seems to change for the better in the book a bit too easily |
| Recommend to potential buyers: |
yes |
Cathy Kelly, as usual, has written her book well, full of Irish characters and family.
I have read one of Cathy Kelly's book before and this one was along the same lines. Her books delve deep into the bonds between family and friends. There are lots of references to Ireland in the book so you can just imagine all these characters chatting away in the lovely accent that Irish people have.
The main characters in the book are Christy Devlin, an art teacher married to
James, Maggie MacGuire, a librarian living with her boyfriend Grey, and Faye Reid, a businesswomen who lives with her 18-year old daughter.
The three characters are all united when something happens in each of their personal lives, something that makes them all look at a secret they have in their past. For Christy, somebody comes back into her life who should never have been in it, for Maggie, she finds out that Grey has been two-timing her and she faces demons from her past, and for Faye, her precious daughter Amber decides to leave her family and exams and go to America with her boyfriend. Faye then faces a secret that she has stored in the past. When Amber leaves, Faye is heartbroken and when Maggie and Christy go to comfort her, they all face their demons together and become close.
To get a copy of this book, you can probably get a copy quite cheaply on ebay or amazon - I got a copy from my local library.
The characters and story are all pleasant and easy going, and there are happy endings for everybody, although the book is cheesy in that everybody changes for the better a bit too quickly and easily, and that everybody does get a happy ending - that doesn't happen in real life so easily!
