A few of the characters Elizabeth talks to regarding her mother and family history are really kind of jerks. ANDREW O'HAGANFrom the bestselling author of Holding comes a masterly tale of secrets and ill-fated loves set on the coast of Ireland.

This is a fabulous little book and I read it from start to finish in one sitting wanting to know more.

From the bestselling author of Holding comes a masterly tale of secrets and ill-fated loves set on the coast of Ireland. I really wanted to like this, and I'm not saying it's a bad book, but I was hoping for so much more than "eh, it's okay" from it.

As for Elizabeth, “back in New York, she had felt guilty for not missing her mother more, but in this house she felt her absence like a physical ache”. She comes across some handwritten letters to her mother from a man by the name of Edward Foley in Cork.As she is sorting through the effects of a lifetime, she discovers a box of letters that reveal her mother as Elizabeth never imagined. Maybe I have been reading too much Tana French and Maeve Binchy, but the book didn't feel "Irish" to me.

What was supposed to be a bit of ordinary shuffle unravels into an emotional journey in time and some unexpected discoveries. You will be surprised at many points, and you will carry on reading because you want to know what happened as much as Elizabeth does. Now”: Only child Elizabeth Keane, a 44-year-old college instructor, divorcée and mother to 17-year-old Zach, living in a tiny apartment in Manhattan, travels to Ireland to finalize her recently deceased mother’s estate in Buncarragh. It's a sad and lovely book, brimful of tenderness and compassion, where the revelations of the past upturn the perceptions of the present.He then secured a prime time slot on Channel 4 with his chat shows So Graham Norton and V Graham Norton . I don't like to do that with NetGalley reads though, so I may have to rethink on that in the future. That things take a far darker turn is obvious but just how far-fetched they become was a disappointment.

i loved this book it had me in from the first page it moved at a quick pace a heartbreaking story that will play with your emotions as it did mine. I cannot say much here it would ruin the story ,very sad thread in it and a desperate act that tore lives apart. I'm not completely certain that I didn't miss something there, but I don't really feel like I can be bothered going back to re-read and find out). Known for his quick wit Graham began hosting a variety of talent shows on BBC One from Strictly Dance Fever and Andrew Lloyd Webber's How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria?The POVs between Patricia and Elizabeth and the mini POVs for Edward and Rosemary just didn't hang together well. Everything that happens to Elizabeth deepens her understanding of motherhood even though her life is turned upside down. This is where the story begins shifting back and forth between present day and the early 1970s, before Elizabeth was born. Urged on by a friend she answers a lonely hearts ad in the Farmers’ Journal and meets Edward Foley, a taciturn farmer who lives in an isolated cottage with his domineering mother. There wasn’t a single character here I didn’t like, or at least sympathize with (including Edward’s deranged mother Catherine) and I loved the setting.