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Hope Gleeson wants to go travelling, to escape her boring London life and plan a happier future. But the unthinkable happens - the plane taking her to sunnier climes experiences technical problems and crash lands. Hope is one of only seventeen people to survive, saved from death by the man sitting next to her.Hope wakes up in hospital with her best friends Adam and Julie at her side. They are taking her home to Ireland, they tell her, to recuperate. But home is the last place Hope wants to go - she has too many secrets to hide... The Summer of Secrets is the brilliant new novel from the wonderful Martina Reilly. Combining gentle humour with darker, real-life issues, this is fiction you won''t want to put down.

Lizzie Walsh has moved to Dublin to start her life again - she has a great job as a fundraiser, a boyfriend she''s crazy about and friends she loves. Until, leaving work late one evening, she runs into the one person she just can''t run away from.Lizzie was only a teenager when, ten years ago, her sister Megan drowned. A local boy, Joe, was sentenced to life imprisonment for murder. Now Joe is back, released from prison on good behaviour, and he, too, wants to put the past to rest. But Lizzie can''t stop thinking about the pain he''s caused her family - it doesn''t seem fair that he should be able to let go. Then, as Lizzie slowly gains his confidence, her own falters: Joe isn''t quite what she expected. Can she find the strength to let old wounds heal?

When steady, dependable artist Eve Cole finds herself sitting by a pool in Florida with an ex-conman, hatching a plan to steal back a painting reportedly worth eleven million euro, she has to ask herself how the hell she wound up here.Her life has always been ordered, safe, predictable. Now, it''s anything but, and if planning an art heist isn''t enough, she also finds herself falling for the (admittedly gorgeous) ex-con, Larry.Because everyone knows no conman is ever truly reformed, right? Especially not one with as many secrets to hide as Larry.As plans for the robbery get underway, Eve quickly discovers that in love, as in art, it''s not always easy to spot the real thing when it comes along. Sometimes, you just have to listen to your heart.

When seventeen-year-old Lily discovers she''s pregnant, she has to make a choice that will determine the rest of her life.Now, nearly sixty years later, in the late stages of Alzheimer''s, Lily has been admitted to Lakelands Nursing Home. Among her possessions, Zoe, a young helper, finds a diary with a note that it be read aloud to Lily''s daughter Deirdre.The diary holds the truth to Lily''s past and, as secrets are uncovered, a tale of fate and responsibility unfolds that binds the three women together.What If? is a compelling and beautiful story of love and loss, and how the choices we make don''t have to define the rest of our lives.

A poignant, heartwarming novel of love, loss and hope for the future, for fans of Me Before You.How do you pick up the pieces after the worst has happened? When Nick Deegan''s wife, Kate, dies, leaving him with two small children to raise alone, he has no idea how he''ll manage. But on the day of her funeral, he discovers a book Kate left for him, Things I Want You to Know. Her instructions for raising Emma and Liam without her give him comfort, but her other plans for him seem much more daunting...Five dates with five different women. Nick isn''t sure his heart is in it...but as he tries to follow Kate''s careful instructions, he slowly realises that it''s not romance Kate wanted him to find, but something far more important. Will Nick find the courage to take a second chance?

Eight years ago, Sandy ran away from home, and has done her best never to look back. Now, the best part of her day is a morning visit from Max, a handsome and successful businessman, who''s always ready with a smile. So when he suddenly disappears from her life, Sandy is worried. What has happened to him? And why did he act so strangely the last time they spoke?As Sandy tries to track Max down, she begins to realise how little she really knows about him - his family, his job, or why his life has started to fall apart.And when she finds him, she comes to understand that they have more in common than she''d ever thought possible. Will they learn to trust each other with the secrets they''ve kept hidden, and finally move on?

Sash Donnelly has done her best to move on - from Applegate, the small town where nothing ever seems out of the ordinary, and from that night, fifteen years ago.Then it happens - the vicious murder that stuns Applegate''s tight-knit community. And Sash receives a phone call from Marcus, her childhood sweetheart. He''s facing a life behind bars and needs her to tell everyone the truth.Lana, Sash''s sister, knows that something happened that night, something that changed Sash, but she has no idea what. And she has a secret too, one that could save Marcus''s life. Someone just needs to ask her the right question.