CATHY KELLY

Tess used to be happy with her lot: she lives in the idyllic Irish coastalvillage, Avalon, with her teenage son, Zach and nine-year-old Kitty,and works in the local antiques shop Her only regret in life is thateverything went so horribly wrong with her first love...

Friends like this are hard to find⦠From the bestselling author of SOMEONE LIKE YOU and WHAT SHE WANTS an uplifiting novel about how three very different women cope with the complexities of their lives â relationships, careers, and families â to find fulfilment. Full of Cathy Kelly's trademark warmth, romance, optimism and wit. What's the secret of the fabulous Miller girlsâ¦? Everyone says that they lead charmed lives: beautiful, brilliant Stella, effortlessly juggling career and single-motherhood; witty TV writer, Tara, and dreamy, artistic Holly. Perhaps it comes from their calm, elegant mother, Rose, the centre of the family and adored wife of Hugh. Now, with Hugh and Rose married for forty years, their perfect daughters and their friends in the Irish country town of Kinvarra are looking forward to a celebration. But as plans are made for the party of the decade, the secret heartaches the four women have kept hidden, even from each other, begin to emerge. Are any of them strong enough to deal with the truth about themselves and their golden lives?

It's easy to fall in love with the hustle and bustle of the beautiful town of Redstone - and amidst all the activity, two women believe they are getting on just fine. Francesca's boundless energy and sunny optimism help her take everything in...

The warm and wonderful new novel from the natural heir to Maeve Binchy What are the ingredients for a life well lived? Eleanor Levine left Ireland years ago with just a suitcase and her mother's recipe book. And now, a lifetime later, she returns from New York for Dublin's beautiful Golden Square full of memories and hard-won wisdom. As she watches life unfold from her window, she is drawn into the lives of the women who live in the square! Beautful actress Megan Bouchier had fame and success in her grasp -- then she made the wrong kind of headlines. Now she needs a place to hide. Big-hearted teacher Connie O'Callaghan is approaching forty and has given up on love. Why does no man match the heroes in her romantic novels? Rae is a loyal friend and wife, dispensing tea and sympathy from Titania's Tea Room -- until a secret threatens everything she holds dear!

Eleanor Levine left Ireland seventy years ago with little more than a suitcase and her mother's handwritten recipe book Now, a lifetime later, she's returning from New York with hard won wisdom and memories of her own A renowned psychoanalyst, Eleanor knows there's one final journey she has to make Lovely young actress Megan Bouchier didn't have to chase success _ it arrived effortlessly...

In guten wie in schlechten Tagen: Freundinnen stehen immer füreinander ein! Abby hat endlich den Stress ihrer TV-Karriere hinter sich gelassen. Doch wie sollen sie und ihr Mann Tom das erträumte Leben zu zweit aushalten? Als Lizzies Ex-Mann Myles plötzlich eine Neue hat, merkt sie, dass sie sich endlich um ihr eigenes Leben kümmern sollte. Und Erin ist ihrem Mann aus den USA nach Irland gefolgt und merkt, dass das verträumte Dunmore nicht Chicago ist. Als jedoch ein tragischer Unfall passiert, entdecken die drei Freundinnen, dass im Leben nicht die kleinen Sorgen zählen, sondern Freundschaft, Liebe und viel Gelächter...01Cathy Kelly arbeitete als Redakteurin, Filmkritikerin und "Kummerkastentante" bei der Dubliner "Sunday World". Ihre Romane dominierten wochenlang die irischen und englischen Bestsellerlisten und sorgen inzwischen auch in Deutschland für Furore. Cathy Kelly ist seit 2005 UNICEF-Botschafterin in Irland. Sie lebt mit ihrem Lebensgefährten und ihren Zwillingssöhnen in Wicklow, Irland.

It all started with Paris. At the top of the Eiffel Tower, a young man proposes to his girlfriend, cheered on by delighted tourists. In that second, everything changes, not just for the happy couple, but for the family and friends awaiting their return in Bridgeport, Ireland...Leila's been nursing a badly broken heart since her love-rat husband just upped and left her one morning, but she's still determined to put on a brave face for the bride. Vonnie, a widow and exceptional cake-maker, is just daring to let love back into her life, although someone seems determined to stop it. And Grace, a divorced head teacher, finds the impending wedding of her son means that she's spending more time with her ex-husband. After all those years apart, is it possible she's made a mistake? With her warmth and insight, Cathy Kelly weaves a delightful tale spinning out from a once-in-a-lifetime moment, drawing together a terrific cast of characters who feel like old friends. It Started With Paris is the sparkling new novel from Number 1 bestseller Cathy Kelly.

La chispeante nueva novela de la autora de los bestseller The Honey Queen y It Started with Paris. Millones de libros publicados en todo el mundo. Embajadora de Unicef, recauda fondos para niños huér

A captivating new novel from the internationally bestselling author whose "plucky heroines build bonds with the reader....Sass, vulnerability, and humor" (People). Hope, Sam, Virginia, and Nicole are four women trying to cope with the vicissitudes of life. Struggling to fit her family in with the hectic demands of her career has made Hope feel like a stranger to her husband, Matt, and their two small children. Her unconventional sister Sam has big plans to be the first female music mogul, running her own record label exactly the way she pleases. Virginia and her husband Bill can't wait to build their retirement dream home and spend more time with their granddaughter. Nicole is the wild child, tossing her fate to the winds as she sings and parties her way through life. Now a day of reckoning is coming, as each of them confronts a shattering crisis that will change them in ways they couldn't have predicted. But can they survive the fallout? With spirit and passion, Cathy Kelly gives us a lively, bighearted novel about friends, sisters, families, love, and all the challenges, joys, and what-ifs of life.