Bibliofemme Bookclub An Irish Bookclub

The cover of this book is deceptive. It would lead me to believe that this book was just another standard chick lit novel but it isn’t, it’s much more.

Love Hurts tells us the story of Ciara, who has been recently widowed. Her husband and childhood sweetheart Niall dropped dead of a heart attack before his time. Alone, with a daughter

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Linda Kavanagh’s second novel follows the same lines as her excellent debut, Love Hurts.

Joanna Brennan has just set up her own solicitor’s practice. One of her first jobs is to administer the will of her mother’s friend, Agnes, who has just suffered a serious heart attack. Agnes is about to reveal the reasoning behind some of her

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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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Four women with four very different lives but all facing huge life changing decisions – how will they cope?

Hope is the working mum, who carries around a continuing burden of guilt that nothing she does is right. Her husband Marc isn’t happy, her two kids are being raised by a close relation of Hitler’s, who runs the local crèche

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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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