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The Moon Over Kilmore Quay

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The Moon over Kilmore Quay is about two sisters Maeve and Lucy growing up in Wexford Ireland with their friend Michelle. They are all so close and the best of friends, that they all decide to immigrate to New York city to start a new life. At first their family that they are leaving behind don’t want the to go but then understand that they are young and want more than living in the small town.
When they get there Lucy meets Ryan and from then on thinks he is the love of her life.
The other half of the story is years later meet Beatrice and Stephanie and Dan. Both their story intertwines further along the book.
This Moon Over Kilmore Quay is a beautiful written story of friendship, family love and Loss. It also tells us of the history of the Irish and for a better life they immigrated to New York to make something of themselves. This is a heart-warming and emotional story with I really enjoyed

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I don’t like giving up on a book. I’ve reached 45% of the way through but it’s just not for me. I’ve put it down and picked it back up again on a couple of occasions determined I’ll press on, but unfortunately I’ve lost all interest.

I read A Thousand Roads Home by this author and I loved that book so much, I thought it was wonderful, however I think it must have been a departure from her usual kind of stories because I wasn’t too keen on My Pear Shaped Life either.

A lot of the time I felt I was reading a tourist information guide on New York to be honest. Otherwise, a very sentimental story, so just not my thing at all. It’s a shame because I would love to know what happened with Bea’s family in Ireland and why she split with Dan but I couldn’t get past all the sentimentality and found it a little too saccharine. I think maybe this book would appeal to a much younger reader than me.

Thank you to the publisher for the invitation to read the book, I’m just sorry I couldn’t get into it.

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I thoroughly enjoyed this book and it took a very unexpected turn (no spoilers here). Set over two timelines and two countries (Ireland and USA), this is a book you can just sink into. Loved it

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With grateful thanks to netgalley and Carmel Harrington for an arc in return for an honest opinion.
Having read all of this authors other works I was delighted to receive an early copy.
This has to be the most outstandingly beautiful book I've read in 2021.
I want to give nothing away 2 sisters Maeve and Lucy and
friend Michelle, growing up on the East Coast of Ireland mix in new York city add a handsome guy named Ryan and add a few years and along come Bea Stephanie Beatrice and Dan a new generation but everything is intertwined in more ways than one, the ups and downs the life of 1st and 2nd generation irish living in New York this is a seriously gripping book I've cried big fat tears more than once I have no words to say apart from it really is❤❤
A FULL-THROTTLE TRUMPET-TOOTING EXTRAVAGANZA.

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Great story with an unexpected ending. Bea lives in the basement apartment of the New York house she grew up in. Her father lives in the main part of the house. They're a proudly Irish-America family, but they've never been back to visit Kilmore Bay, where she grew up. Then Bea gets the chance and takes it. Her father refuses, for reasons which become clear later. Bea has recently broken up with her boyfriend, Dan, which her friends can't understand as they were so loving. The story flashes between Bea's story and that of Lucy, emigrating to New York from Ireland in the 1990s with her sister, Maeve. In the meantime, mysterious things seem to happen to Bea. At the start, I thought this would be just another story of migration to the US, but it's much more than that. Loved it!

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Thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for an early review copy.

Hearing stories of home, and having grown up in the Irish community, Bea then finds a letter, one she wrote when younger, and it takes her into her family history. her younger self, written years before, it sends her deep into her own family history.

We’re then taken years back to the time when , Lucy left her home and family, to travel to New York. She finds The Big Apple a whole different world to what she’d grown up in, a quiet village, and she longs to be back there.

Upon discovering a secret, now Bea is back in Kilmore Quay. Here, long kept truths are brought to light, but it seems that’s not the end for Bea as fate has one last twist in store…..

Highly recommend this.

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Carmel Harrington certainly knows how to entertain a reader! I fell in love with this book immediately and have been continuously adjusting my reading path while literally devouring page after page.
I did pick up a few hints and I might have guessed a thing or two, but never had I thought that ( no spoilers here) ... 'Oh no way!'. Plot twist. When you thought you'd finally 'got it', no time to recover , bam! another plot twist (and don't think you're finished. The best is saved for last. She palys with the reader until the very last chapters. Again, no spoilers, but I hadn't seen that coming).
Brilliant. Marvellous. Amazing.
How come I didn't know this author? I have to thank Harper Collins UK for their invite to view this book an Netgalley. It goes straight to my top ten reads of this year. I'll definitely be reading more from this author. Very recommended.
I received an early copy from Harper Collins UK, Harper Fiction, via Netgalley, with many thanks to the publisher, the author and Netgalley.

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What a beautiful read, a lovely book to escape into. A love story with a few twists as well as touching on Irish Immigration to America. A book that will stay with me for a long time.

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Wow wow wow. What a gorgeous beautiful book. The characters of Lucy and Bea are so likeable and credible. You fall in love with them and get so invested in their story. I dont want to give away any spoilers but I will say their stories will stay with me for a long time to come.

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