NEW RELEASE
The Love Book - Fiona O'Brien (2012)
Three boarding school students, Abby, Diana and Vonnie, visit St Valentine's shrine in Dublin to leave their love petitions in a special book. They vow to meet up in years to come to see whether their romantic wishes came true. Vonnie took off to America, leaving behind the family she never really felt a part of. Now she is returning to Ireland, with her young daughter, Jazz, in tow. What went wrong with her relationship with Jazz's father? Diana has become a successful make-up artist but would now like to take some time out. But not if she has to count on husband Greg for support. As for Abby, she married dashing doctor Edward but is worried she might have trapped him. Now her mother has moved in and is sowing the seeds that Edward is having an affair. Told from multiple perspectives, this is an engaging read which slowly reveals how the women's lives and loves have unfolded. All the way through, an affair has its own separate story thread, which leaves you guessing which characters are involved.
The Love Book, by Fiona O'Brien, is about three women, three wishes and one life-changing book. The summary says: "In 1980, three schoolgirls visit St Valentine's shrine in Dublin, to write their petitions for love. By 2010, these same women have discovered that finding love was the easy part - it's what you do with it once you've found it that's tricky. When one of the women returns home unexpectedly from California, all three are forced to examine their choices, loves, and lives, which have proved surprising, and in some ways, precarious. So much for St Valentine - if the saint has taught them anything about love - it's be careful what you wish for . . . But real love is always a work in progress - and Vonnie, Abby and Diana must learn they need to open their eyes and more especially their hearts - because St Valentine has some unfinished business with them." The Love Book is out in February.