The Irish Boarding House: Completely heart-warming Irish historical fiction

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The tone is uplifting and warm, perhaps a little saccharine but the overall effect is a lovely book in which women and their friendships are given a voice. I just loved the family unit that they all built up and it was all thanks to Mary Kate using the money to do good not only for herself but for so many others. I attempted to leave a review on this books many months ago when I finished reading it but had technical issues. Colleen and Rosa couldn't have been happier - but there were secrets behind each person's closed doors. The personal situations of the various characters are easy to relate to and the emotions are clearly described.

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The boarding house brings Mary Kate love and friendships she never dreamed of, but just as her heart is about to burst with joy, a new guest arrives.This review was written voluntarily and my rating was in no way influenced by the fact that I received a complimentary digital copy of this novel from Bookouture via NetGalley. Despite the way things ended I feel the characters plus many more could be brought back again and the fact that I am saying this shows how much I really enjoyed the book. At first, Mary Kate feels compelled to walk away from this surprise inheritance but then an idea sparks in her heart when a lowly deserted house captures her attention. books with a large cast normally turn me off because it takes a special author to be able to manage a lot of characters and deliver a story that feels complete and satisfying.

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Written when the author was a young man, Dubliners bears the imprint of Joyce’s early literary hero, the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen.The setting, the varied cast of characters all with their own problems and then coming together as a family, the warmth and human understanding and just the overall tone and feel of the book reminded me of so many books written by Maeve. This was such a unique book in that it takes place within the 1950s Ireland and I honestly feel that there are not enough books that better explore this decade within the UK. She remembers a large old house she has walked past and decides to turn the run-down place into a boarding house. When Joyce was writing Dubliners at the beginning of the 20th century, Ireland was part of the United Kingdom, ruled from London by the UK Parliament. We get various points of views, yes, but will not lose track for each story is so memorable and moving you will sail along on their sometimes turbulent and other times peaceful waves.

The Irish Boarding House: Completely heart-warming Irish

There were a few twists and turns and surprising connections which emerge and the major one although I could see it coming I felt was resolved all too quickly given the past history and I would have loved just a little bit more fleshing out of it with perhaps a chapter or two more to allow for some exploration and further discussion. The Irish Boarding House is an engaging and heart warming book to read and lifts the spirits as hope triumphs over adversity. Tags: book review book tour 1952, Mary Kate is in the pits of despair and is ready to take her own life when a letter arrives that changes everything.With no money and her future looking glum she decides that she wants to end her life in the local river.

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The plot drew me in from page one and I'm a sucker for historical fiction so literally read it straight through. Her writing erased the world around me and had me totally invested - even as she took me over the course of someone's life over 10 years in 330 pages (easy to lose a reader there).The writing was in such an easy reading style, it was the perfect way to spend a couple of evenings before bed. In the course of learning about Mrs Mooney’s boarding house, where she lives with her son, Jack, and her daughter, Polly, we discover that Polly, who was known to flirt with the guests, had been taken advantage of by a man lodging in the boarding house, an older man in his mid-thirties named Mr Doran. His reputation largely rests on just four works: a short story collection Dubliners (1914), and three novels: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), Ulysses (1922), and Finnegans Wake (1939). I read a lot of heavy historical fiction, so sweet and saccharine every now and then is a nice change.