Or visit the haunting prison, Kilmainham Gaol , where some of the most notorious criminals were held. I know that many, many Readers are going to have a lot of fun with this, so please don't let my disappointment sway you from picking it up if it sounds interesting to you.

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Once the women arrived at Dark Fell Barn, they proceeded to do nothing that would equate to the intent to have a fun weekend holiday.

I felt drawn to Ellen, as she's very much like me, her family is the most important thing in her life. This is a fun read that has it's serious moments and left me wanting to get together with some of my old school friends and reconnect. The pace cleverly rises to a crescendo and then falls as switches point of you leaving you in a state of suspense and desperate to know the outcomes. For all ebook purchases, you will be prompted to create an account or login with your existing HarperCollins username and password. Not a single likable or interesting character, each behaves more over-the-top than the next and all are just a bunch of boorish drama queens overreacting to just about everything.

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Through the flames had come a friendship, two kindred spirits who had lost so much and needed to find their way back to happiness. As an avid reader, I often find myself reading a book description and not being able to remember whether I’ve read it before. The author does a good job of accurately portraying how people try and reconcile their current lives with where they expected be.A character driven contemporary drama that includes a number of issues and themes that are very well executed into the storyline.

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Toby, professor, nerdy, finds Ruth: accomplished doctor, who is mentally trainwreck, struggling mom, suffering from insecurity and alcoholism. I have enjoyed all of Gilly Macmillan's previous books and although I enjoyed this one, it was not one of my favorites. I suppose the plotting was okay, but I didn’t like the style of the author revealing more a little at a time, in annoying bits and pieces. best-seller on lesbian fiction charts around the globe with five full-length novels to her name, as well as writing the All I Want series, set to continue throughout 2016. But perhaps he is at his best when it comes to the house party or Saturday-to-Monday (it was non-U to use the word “weekend”), with its relays of cars, its exhausting dress codes, its picnics of plover eggs.

The story follows the four days that the group spends together remembering the simpler days of their youth, trying to determine the state of their current lives and if this reunion can out do the previous one ten years ago. Beth, Simone, Alice and Jamie don’t know each other but before the three days are over, secrets from each of them will surface and they will know each other a whole lot better. Here is the society decorator Sibyl Colefax, burning rosemary on saucers so that her Chelsea villa might smell enticing to guests she hoped to bag as clients; here is the future Edward VIII doing his needlepoint on a low modern sofa at the newly remodelled Fort Belvedere in Windsor Great Park; and here is Edwin Lutyens worrying about Castle Drogo in Devon, the modern yet timelessly solid place he is building for the tea importer Julius Drewe.

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It occasionally stepped back in time, showing various pasts, but as the women and one man travelled on their journeys, I was drawn to them and felt for them all the way. Tilden believed that Port Lympne, with its murals by Rex Whistler, its garden by Norah Lindsay, and its dramatic bathing pool that seemed to float above the marsh, was Sassoon’s response to the war, a declaration that “a new culture had risen up from the sickbed of the old, with new aspirations… [a] mind tuned to a new burst of imagination”.Over three days we learn so much from the four main POVs as each characters narrative play out in present time and flashbacks to their most painful memories. This book had a lot of “Oh” moments, thinking you had sorted out a secret and then you left wondering. It’s not a plotless book, I just didn’t feel that it had anything meaningful to add to the genre or as a comment on the human condition or anything at all.