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Pub Date 28 Aug 2025 | Archive Date 31 Aug 2026


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Winner of the Irish Book Awards Popular Fiction Book of the Year 2025

Pip’s world is small. But it’s about to become a whole lot bigger.

For years she’s tucked away her dreams, shrinking herself into the space left behind – like the delicate origami she creates alone in her room.

Then hope comes from an unlikely place: an astronomer from the local observatory. He teaches her to look up at the stars, and to see a world far bigger and more beautiful than she ever imagined.

And perhaps in that big, beautiful universe there’s someone waiting for her. If she can find the courage to open her heart.

Pip never stopped dreaming, but now it’s time for her to live – and maybe even to fall in love.

PRAISE FOR CECELIA AHERN:

'A lovely, transportive, deeply felt story. My heart grows a bit bigger each time I read a Cecelia Ahern book' Karin Slaughter

'An immersive, sometimes heartbreaking, yet ultimately uplifting rollercoaster read. Her best yet' Patricia Scanlan

‘A tender, moving story about second chances and the quiet courage it takes to hope again’ Louise O’Neill

Cecelia Ahern's book 'In a Thousand Different Ways' was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 2023-04-10

Winner of the Irish Book Awards Popular Fiction Book of the Year 2025

Pip’s world is small. But it’s about to become a whole...


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ISBN 9780008608217
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PAGES 368

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What a wonderful read! I haven't read Cecelia Ahern for a while, and I was just reminded again what a great storyteller she is.

This is a story that will pull at your heartstrings. It's a story about a girl who fell in love with a boy, and the result was her being pregnant at the age of 16. From that point forward, she seemed to merely exist rather than truly live. Blamed for the dishonor she brought on the family, kept away from the boy she loved, and she didn't even get to raise her own daughter. We meet a 32-year-old Pip who is still living with her parents and her daughter. She's given up everything: her daughter, her teenage years, and any chance at a future. She is employed at the Ballybeg service station, where she prepares sandwiches, and the only source of solace she finds is in her Origami Girl Poems.

Then, out of the blue, Jamie shows up again. Will Pip finally get the happy ending she's always wanted? Will she finally stand up for herself and find her own voice?

"Remember to look up at the stars, and not down at your feet."

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