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All I Want Is You

Poppy Furlong has the dream life – gorgeous home, loving husband and a five-year-old son she adores. Then overnight she loses it all – her home, gym membership, expensive car, regular trips to the beauty salon – because her husband’s business partner has disappeared with the company profits.

As she attempts to rebuild her family, Poppy leaves Dublin for the suburbs. There she acquires a mother-in-law from hell, a father she hardly knows, a new job, a new friend, a better insight into parenting and a new life. Will it match up to the old one? Or might it just be better?

“A compelling, heart-wrenching tale that will keep you riveted till the end” - Collette Caddle

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Wish Upon A Star

It’s hard for Lucy, being the sister of super-model Tracy Gleeson. It’s hard because Tracy is gorgeous and Lucy feels distinctly average; Tracy is famous and Lucy works as a receptionist in a vet’s clinic; Tracy has just landed a part in a major Hollywood movie and all Lucy has ever wanted to do is act.

Worse than that, however, is the fact that Lucy almost had it all – only she fell pregnant and is now a single mum living in a tiny house with Fáinne, her daughter. While she loves her child with all her heart, she didn’t quite imagine her life would feel over at the age of twenty-eight.

And now, Fáinne wants to get to know her father – only Lucy never told him that she was pregnant. So, against the advice of her best friends and her doom-laden mother, Lucy begins the search to trace the boy she has tried so hard to forget...

“Reilly manages to make serious topics fun to read” - Woman’s Way

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Wedded Blitz

When Dublin girl Jane married local boy Jim, she thought it was for ever. But now there are cracks in their marriage that they just can’t seem to fix. Then Jim announces he’s moving out, and Jane is left to pick up the pieces of their family life. On top of that her mother decides to visit...

Determined to remain upbeat, Jane resolves to make a real success of her work, only to discover that Cutting Edge, the hairdressing empire, is opening a shop just yards away from her own humble salon. With her staff in uproar and customers deserting her in droves, Jane decides to play Cutting Edge at its own game.

Then life deals Jane and Jim one dreadful blow. As past hurts rush to the surface, they are forced to confront what drove them apart in the first place.

“Clever, frank and funny” - Bella

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Something Borrowed

Adopted as a baby, Vicky McCarthy’s curiosity about where she came from has finally got the better of her: she wants to trace her birth mother.

If that doesn’t cause friction enough, there’s a new face to contend with at work: Ed O’Neill, whom Vicky is convinced is being groomed for her job as manager of Dublin toyshop Toys Galore. Sal, Vicky’s go-getting best friend, thinks Ed is gorgeous, and that if Vicky doesn’t bag him, she will. But Vicky is going out with Marti, manager of an up-and-coming boy band, with a six-year-old son and complications of his own...

Longlisted for Dublin Impac Literary Award.

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Is This Love?

Maggie’s life is still as big a mess as it always was. Now she’s left London, her boyfriend and her job and landed on her mother’s doorstep. She has nowhere else to go.

Pamela, her sister, puts up with things, even her control-freak husband Dick because she loves him.
Dick, who doesn’t like his shirts being in the washbasket for too long.
Dick, who likes order; otherwise, he says, things get out of control.

Two sisters whose lives and loves have taken very different paths find themselves thrown together in their childhood home, forced to confront painful truths.

In their search for that truth can love survive?

And just what is love anyway?

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The Onion Girl

Have you ever wondered what happened to that person you fancied when you were seventeen? Well, Meg and Jack are about to find out...

Meg: so quiet she’d make a funeral seem like a rave.
Her life: a cross between bad-hair days and bad-everything days.
Jack: so out there he’s almost living in the future.
His life: a cross between a Grand Prix race and a major crash.
They were once good friends - some might say very good friends. Then Jack told Meg he’d keep in touch and never did. Now, ten years on, they’re virtual strangers. Only Jack wants to change all that...

“...gritty, sometimes spicy and always an entertaining read” - Sunday World
“This witty novel marks out Reilly as a star of the future” - Belfast Telegraph

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Flipside

Meet Jan. She’s 25 and clueless, with no idea what to do about her life. She wears too much make-up and too little clothes, has a crummy typing job and no man. In fact, her life verges on the boring side of disastrous. Then out of the blue something happens that threatens to turn her life upside down. She soon realises that being a disastrous thirty-something is worth fighting for. Together with her strange family, two flatmates, Al, a shy workmate, and Dave, a newly acquired eco-warrior boyfriend, the battle begins.

AND JAN REALISES EXACTLY WHAT SHE WANTS TO DO WITH HER LIFE - LIVE IT.

“Tina Reilly has a remarkable talent and is destined to become one of Ireland’s great writers” - Commuting Times

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