Bibliofemme Bookclub An Irish Bookclub

On the outside it looks like Jim and Jane have the perfect marriage but, scratch the surface a little, and you see that all is not as it seems. Jim announces that he can’t go on and, leaving Jane to deal with their two children, packs his bag and goes to stay with a friend.

Shortly after Jim’s departure, Jane’s mother lands on her

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Heather is a country girl, who doesn’t think there’s anything wrong with being a country girl, her glamorous cousin thinks that living anywhere other than Dublin is a mortal sin, so therefore good natured Heather is dragged off to Dublin where slowly but surely things start to go wrong.

Noreen returned home from London to nurse her mother

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Seaman’s Point looks like heaven to any city dweller but to Eva Fitzgerald, who has spent the last four weeks there with two small children, it is a prison without bars. As her husband’s absences increase, due to the glamorous Sylvia, Eva’s drinking does too. When Eva discovers she’s pregnant it’s the last thing she

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Jennifer is a single mother. Once upon a time she had a high-flying career, monthly highlights and contact lenses. Now her life revolves around her little boy Charlie, all she has in her life is Charlie and that’s all she needs. When he starts school, like any mother, Jennifer is torn – worrying about him while he is gone and at a complete

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A number of female Irish authors came together to contribute to Travelling Light, a book of short stories on the theme of travelling, with the proceeds of its sale going towards the upkeep of a new children’s ward at Kisiizi Hospital in Uganda.

The stories range from absolutely hilarious – journalist Martina Devlin tracks down the perfect

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The saying goes that there are two sides to every story, but in The Affair there are three: those of the wife, the husband and the mistress.

Kathy and Robert have been married for eighteen years and have three children. Robert is spending more and more time at the office, working in his production company building the business – or so Kathy

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