I have read previous books by this author but not the prequel to this story. I still enjoyed the story which was sad in parts and inspiring in others.

I read P.S. I Love You when it came out (was it really 16 years ago?), I originally wanted to re-read it before reading this, but time got in the way so I jumped straight in. You could technically read this as a standalone, but I think it is the perfect sequel to the original story.

I did not think it would live up to the gentle beauty of the first book, but I found myself getting more and more invested in this story as it continued. I loved the members of the P.S. I Love You Club, especially Ginika and her baby Jewel, and felt that particularly with the issues that Paul had in addressing his messages, it was all handled so wonderfully.

I shed a fair few tears towards the end, but when the subject matter is death and grief, I can't imagine it not making me cry.

All in all, this was a fantastic sequel.

Cecilia Ahern writes a marvellous sequel to P.S. I Love You, immersing the reader again in the life of 37-year-old Holly Kennedy seven years on since the loss of her beloved husband, Gerry, from cancer at the age of 30. She has a new life with Gabriel, and is working at her sister, Ciara's second-hand vintage shop, Magpie, and remains close to her friends, Sharon and Denise. She has agreed to support Ciara by taking part in her podcast and talking about her experiences of losing Gerry and the letters he left behind for her. When a new group calling itself the P.S. I Love You Club asks for her help, Holly takes her time to consider as it was so difficult to find the strength to survive Gerry's loss, and she is reluctant to let Gerry consume a big part of her life again.

Cecelia Ahern has a real gift for writing unique and meaningful stories. Her writing flows beautifully is so easy to read. I would highly recommend this novel and I really hope that one day another book will join this outstanding series!

I received a complimentary copy of this novel at my request from HarperCollins via NetGalley. This review is my own unbiased opinion.

A wonderful book, if you loved P.S I Love You, you will adore this story. The characters were fresh and well developed. I was committed to their story and was rooting for them throughout the book.

It's always a worry when reading a sequel to an amazing first book. How can a sequel live up to the original inspiring and beautiful story of PS I love you?!
This is beautifully written and follows on from the idea of the journey of grief and where Holly is 7 years on. There are times particularly to begin with that I found it to be long winded or drawn out and I just wanted something to grab me and feeltruly involved in the story, it lacked enough depth to some of the characters stories and so felt a little rushed, or too much covered within the book so everyone's story felt a little incomplete.
It has to be read though if you loved the first book and is still a beautiful story just, unfortunately for me follows the saying that the sequel is never as good as the first.

Obviously a sequel to PS - I Love You. A catch-up plus reminders of what happened when Holly lost Gerry. Some books benefit greatly from a follow-on but not the prequel to this. Sometimes it’s best to leave well alone. I loved PS but not this one so much although it did have it’s moments it has to be said. Sad times and happier ones. Engagingly written but a bit slow to pick up pace. Lovely cover. This book will appeal to most people who loved the first book/film.

I love the authors writing but especially how she writes about friendships and relationships
This novel was both heartbreaking and heartwarming.
This book is more than a regular chick lit. A great book

This is the book that millions have been waiting for: the sequel to PS. I love you. It felt like catching up with old friends as we journeyed with Holly some seven years later. It is an amazing book from start to finish!

This book was an easy read, as they always are by Cecelia Ahern, though I think it felt a bit predictable for me unfortunately. I think there was only one or two ways this plot could have gone and while I'm glad she chose the direction she did... I just didn't LOVE any characters, which I think I needed when it's such a sensitive storyline.

It was nice to see it wrapped up from P.S I love you, but didn't leave me as warm!

P.S I love you is one of my favourite books ever and I have really taken my time to read this as I knew it would probably be another emotional read. I loved getting to revisit Holly, seven years along the line from when she lost Gerry.

I was so proud of myself as I reached 75% of the way through without turning into an emotional mess and then that last 25% caught me out. A wonderful insight into how Holly has started to move on after her loss and how a podcast totally changes the course that she thought her life was taking.

A wonderful story filled with love, joy, hope and loss. I absolutely loved it and felt that even written so far apart they flowed together effortlessly

It’s been seven years since Holly’s husband Gerry died. She has rebuilt her life, she has a new boyfriend and with time is learning to overcome such a terrible loss and deal with her grief. Her sister Clara asks her to do a podcast talking about dealing with her grief and loss. With her sister and best friends support she opens up and also talks Gerry’s letters on the podcast.

From listening to the podcast a group of people who are terminally ill form a PS. I love you group. They want to leave behind something wonderful for their loved ones for after they are gone. They try to enlist Holly’s help but she refuses.

Before I read Postscript I re-read the prequel p.s I love you again and was heartbroken again. I was so invested in Holly’s story once again and I wanted to know how Holly was now. The sequel Postscript had me in tears, made me feel sad at times but it had me laughing and smiling as well. A wonderful must read.

Please note that this book is not for me - I have read the book, However I had to DNF and because i do not like to give negative reviews I will not review this book fully - there is no specific reason for not liking this book. I found it a struggle to read and did not enjoy trying to force myself to read this book.

Apologies for any inconvenience caused and thank you for the opportunity to read this book

It has been 15 years since I first lost myself within the pages of the beautiful debut novel of Cecelia Ahern's PS, I Love You, and I can truly say that when I first heard about a sequel being released I could not wait to find out how Holly's life is going.
Postscript picks up 7 years after Gerry passed away and the letters he had left for Holly have now ended. Holly has started to rebuild her life again, and has found comfort within to some degree, so when her sister Ciara persuades her to be a guest on her podcast to talk about the ways in which the letters helped Holly deal with the death of Gerry she reluctantly agrees.
When a group of terminally ill people come forward and tell Holly how inspired they were by Gerry's letters, and how they wish to do the same for their loved ones - and they all want Holly to help them.

I adored this book from the first page! I found the story so incredibly emotional both from Holly's point of view, along with the new cast of characters and their own life stories that you become well and truly invested in. The characters were perfectly developed, each with their own personalities and stories to tell - which added extra depth to this incredible story. I could shout about this book all day long, but I don't want to give away any spoilers. All I will say, is that everyone should read this book! It will certainly stay with me.

I think I enjoyed this more than the original. Holly’s grief is less raw and there’s not that heart stopping sadness that was so prominent in PS I Love You. The stories of the club are heartbreaking though, and it’s not without tears, but the sense is more of growth and strength and forward movement and it was lovely to catch up with Holly a few years on.

To begin, I’d like to thank HarperCollins UK, for sending me an ARC of this book, and to NetGalley for facilitating. And a thank you, of course, to Cecelia Ahern for... well... the tears I guess...

No spoilers as usual in this review.

Where to begin. I finished this book about a month ago and it’s taken me this long to write the review. Because it put me through the wringer.

Most women my age know Holly and Gerry from either the books or the film. We loved their love story. Even though it broke our hearts. And when I thought about reading the second one I was on the fence because I didn’t know if I had it in me. But then I thought - the worst happened already - you can handle this one!

Well... I was wrong wasn’t I? Just as funny, uplifting, frustrating, and heartbreaking as the first. My god this is a book to read.

Amazing. I can’t say much more - I’m even feeling a bit choked up writing this. It’s a story that will stay with me forever, I know.

💕 Reading @Cecelia_Ahern 'Postscript' and I love it but it's too emotional for me!
She definitely gets the way it feels, even years after a loss, to go through the grief process. Her writing is Amazing and the funny thing is... I can't put it down! Even though I'm laughing one minute then I'm blubbing my eyes out the next - it's Brilliant!

Thank you #Netgalley for giving me the opportunity of reading this book in return of an honest review.

I really enjoyed this newest novel by Cecelia Ahern, which is the follow up to P. S. I Love you.
We meet Holly who has moved on from her life with Gerry. and she seems happy until a group of strangers ask her to help them do what Ferry did for her with the letters.
I really like the premise, and the book delved into the other aspect of all of this - what is it like to be the one who has to say goodbye... How do you know what to say when it will be the last thing your loved ones ever hear from you? How can you even contemplate something so profound while you're coming to terms with your own mortality?
I flew through the novel in a way I always do with Ahern's writing. It was emotional but funny in parts, just humerous enough to make the sadness okay.

P.S I Love You, is one of my all time favourites so when I was gifted this book through NetGalley, I was beyond excited! But this also meant that I went into book with VERY high expectations, all of which were surpassed as right from the first page I was enamoured by Ahern's writing style and beloved characters. Set six years after the final letter, we are once again taken on a beautiful journey of love, change and healing leaving us with a storyline filled with emotion and thought-provoking topics. I was left contemplating about what we can learn from others who’ve had to rebuild their lives after loss, and also the healing power that comes from the people around us.

It's been a very long time since Cecelia Ahern published her debut novel, PS, I Love You. A runaway success, my mum and sister and I all read it, and it was adapted into a (frankly, terrible) film with Gerard Butler, inexplicably transported to New York. Postscript was an unexpected, but honestly very touching followup which catches up with Holly, our letter recipient, seven years after her husband's death, so six years after the end of the first book. Working in her sister's charity shop, Holly has a new boyfriend, is thinking about selling her 'starter home' and is generally pretty content. But when, in an effort to help her sister, she publicly shares the story of what Gerry did for her as he prepared for his death, she sets in place a chain of events which will force her to return to those dark days immediately after her husband's death. Can she find the strength within herself to help these other dying souls who want to emulate Gerry's gift? Or is that a path to falling back into the darkness that threatened to swallow her after her husband's death?
I thoroughly enjoyed Postscript. It jumped vibrantly off the page at me, screaming 'Dublin' as Holly journeyed around the city, creating scavenger hunts and stalking bus drivers (shout out to the 66a, my local bus). And the more mature Holly, now in her late thirties, was a delight to read about, as her grief and indecision was totally understandable. not wanting to forget her husband, but not wanting to relive the toughest thing she ever lived through, Holly (and her family and friends) spends a lot of this book feeling tort about what she should do and what the best path for her is. I won't say there's an easy answer - there definitely isn't - but Cecelia Ahern draws the reader in with her as she teases out the tangles of Holly's life and loves.
I absolutely loved the character of Ginika in this book, and would've been eager to hear more about her specifically. Honestly, if the entire book had been Ginika and Holly's siblings, that would've been fine. But a very enjoyable (and moving) followup, which showcases a more mature approach (as a writer and as a character) to a story that felt complete in and of itself, but does justice to this touching postscript.

In this sequel to PS I Love You we once again meet Holly, now some seven years after her husband, Gerry, died. At the request of her sister Ciara she makes a podcast about the grieving process she went through and the letters Gerry left her to be opened after his death. Although it seemed as if she was only talking to a small group of people, the podcast was listened to by many others including a group of people who all have a terminal diagnosis. They appeal to Holly to help them construct their own letters to leave family and friends, but she initially refuses, not wanting to be drawn into the grief again. However, as she gets to know the group and becomes involved in their individual stories she realises she can actually help people and send them on their way in knowledge they leave something meaningful for those left behind.
The writing in this book is excellent and the story unfolds beautifully as the members of the PS I Love You Club as it becomes known, make Holly question her own reactions to Gerry's death and explore her own feelings, while she is supporting them.
It is not necessary to have read the first book, but it would certainly help. The characters are well drawn and believable. Holly makes mistakes herself, particularly with her new romance, and we find, slyly, that perhaps not all of Gerry's letters were as welcome as first thought. I liked that the characters were not sugar coated.
Full of emotion and very enjoyable. Read armed with a box of tissues...