Whose Life is it Anyway

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A warm-hearted story about a woman torn between her family and her man It's tricky for Niamh O'Flaherty, growing up in a North London home that's a shrine to all things Irish. But it's even trickier being an adult and realizing that her family expects her to settle down with a nice Irish lad, especially now that she's living in Dublin. When Niamh finally meets the love of her life he is the last person she would expect to fall for her. Pierre is older and an intellectual, but she loves his ability to laugh at himself, his calmness and strength of character, and, of course, his stunning looks. There's just one problem- if Pierre's parents - Jean and Fleur - are sniffy about their pride and joy hooking up with a girl who writes a fluffy newspaper column, her parents, Mick and Annie, are going to go ballistic when they hear that their daughter intends to marry someone who couldn't be less Irish if he tried . . .

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Makes you really care ... plenty of laughs and more than a bit of substance * Irish Mail On Sunday *
Marian Keyes has for years been the undisputed queen of applying the light tender touch to dark, painful subjects - Sinad Moriarty is now a worthy competitor * Sunday Independent *
A gift at unwrapping a good, plausible tale and creating likeable characters that you care about * Irish Independent *
Fabulous ... at times touching and at others genuinely hilarious * Sunday Times *
A perfect book to curl up with ... will have you laughing one minute and nodding sympathetically the next * Sunday Business Post *
Does romance very well ... wonderfully described and convincing * Irish Independent *
Beautifully observed * Bella *
Another corker of a tale * Richard Madeley *

Author Bio

Growing up, Sinead Moriarty was inspired by watching her mother, an author of children's books, writing at the kitchen table. Her childhood dream was to write a novel. It was at the age of thirty, while working as a journalist in London, that she began to write creatively in her spare time - after work, at lunch times ... and, truth be told, during work hours. Her first novel, The Baby Trail, a bitter-sweet story of a couple struggling to have a baby (inspired by her own early difficulties conceiving) was published in 2004 and has been translated into twenty languages. Sinead Moriarty's novels have sold over half a million copies in Ireland and the UK. She has won over readers and critics telling stories that are funny, humane, moving and relevant to modern women. She lives in her native Dublin with her husband and their three children.