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Roisin Meaney has written a sequel to One Summer called After The Wedding. The summary says: "It's the beginning of May on the island of Roone, two years after Nell Mulcahy called off her wedding to the handsome Tim. Now she's preparing for a very different wedding - but as she sets off for an old church in County Clare, a disappearance on Roone throws the island into turmoil. As the days pass and the search continues, the islanders cope as best they can - Nell adjusting to life as a married woman, Imelda and Hugh discovering the trials of fostering, Laura pregnant and under pressure and teenage Andy finding his first love. Every summer on the island is eventful but this year brings challenges that test everyone's courage. Will happiness be restored before autumn comes, or will Roone's magic finally run out?" After The Wedding is out in April 2014.


One Summer - Roisin Meaney (2012)

Nell is getting married next December, on her birthday. To help pay for the wedding, she rents out her cottage to holidaymakers visiting the Irish island of Roone. She moves into a small room off her hair salon above the local pub. It will be a squeeze but it's only for six weeks and her fiance Tim only visits from Dublin on weekends. But as summer unfolds and her three lots of tenants arrive, there are many changes in store for the islanders. Full of endearing characters, this story offers a lovely take on island life. It's written with very short scenes which keeps the story moving but sometimes the reader doesn't have any idea who is talking until halfway through the conversation. Sometimes this works as a useful plot device, other times it is plain confusing. But all in all, it's a heartwarming story that's well worth a read.



Roisin Meaney's latest novel One Summer is centred around a magical Irish cottage. The summary says: "On a small island off the west coast of Ireland there's a cottage at the edge of the sea that was once owned by a faith healer. There's rumour among the inhabitants of the island that the cottage is magical and the cottage's current owner, Nell, does think it has magic powers. After all, it brought her back to the island from Dublin and it delivered Tim, her fiance. And now she's planning her wedding to the man she loves. So when Nell decides to let the house for six weeks during the summer, to raise money for her wedding, deep down, she also hopes that the house works its magic on the holiday-makers who chose her home over the thousands on the website. And it does. But perhaps not in the way she expected. When Nell's carefully laid plans for the cottage, her tenants and her wedding begin to unravel she begins to wonder if we really do choose our destiny or is our fate already written in the stars?"

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