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Before My Actual Heart Breaks
Before My Actual Heart Breaks | Tish Delaney
4 posts | 3 read | 2 to read
'This is in many ways a familiar story but it is told in such a fresh, entertaining, funny and moving way, it felt like I was reading something brand new.' Roddy Doyle __________________________________________________ If I could go back to being sixteen again, Id do things differently.' 'Everyone over the age of forty feels like that, you total gom,' says my best friend Lizzie Magee. When she was young Mary Rattigan wanted to fly. She was going to take off like an angel from heaven and leave the muck and madness of troubled Northern Ireland behind. Nothing but the Land of Happy Ever After would do for her. But as a Catholic girl with a B.I.T.C.H. for a Mammy and a silent Daddy, things did not go as she and Lizzie Magee had planned. Now, five children, twenty-five years, an end to the bombs and bullets, enough whisky to sink a ship and endless wakes and sandwich teas later, Marys alone. Shes learned plenty of hard lessons and missed a hundred steps towards the life she'd always hoped for. Will she finally find the courage to ask for the love she deserves? Or is it too late?
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rambiepaige
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Sadly, my library wouldn‘t purchase this one. At least I get to keep it forever! ☺️

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youneverarrived
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Mehso-so

Set against the background of The Troubles in Northern Ireland this novel spans nearly forty years in the life of the protagonist, Mary. It started off great and I liked the ending but there was a lot of repetition in between. I understood Mary‘s reticence to some extent (her upbringing, the life she thought she wanted) but it did get a bit tedious to read about. ⭐️⭐️⭐️

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BookwormM
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Pickpick

#ARC #Netgalley #BeforeMyActualHeartBreaks

The best way I can sum this book up is GWTW Northern Irish style. We replace the American civil war with The Troubles & Scarlet with Mary a modest girl from a poor family whose one mistake at 16 defines the rest of her life including the fact that she is so blinded by what could have been that she fails to see what it is she actually has.

Full review here https://thereadersroom.org/2021/11/14...

EvieBee This sounds great! 2y
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BookwormM
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Anyone tried this yet? https://caboodle.nationalbooktokens.com/hiddenbooks/ I have so far managed a measly 3 books.

Picture is what happens to healthy eating when I have a day off work 🤣🤣

Loving the tagged book

BookwormM Now up to 5 man the clues are hard bet they will be obvious once you know 2y
mabell Oh wow! Where do you even start to eat it?? 😳😍 2y
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