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Author spotlight: The Bookshop Ladies by Faith Hogan

‘A captivating read, written with warmth and elegance, The Bookshop Ladies is the perfect escape!’ Evie Woods, author of The Lost Bookshop

Bestselling Irish writer, Faith Hogan, has created another gripping saga of friendship, betrayal and secrets in this story of a widow in search of answers to a shocking confession by her dying husband.

Faith Hogan

Faith Hogan lives in the west of Ireland with her husband, four children and two very fussy cats. She has an Hons Degree in English Literature and Psychology, has worked as a fashion model and in the intellectual disability and mental health sector. In 2014 she was a winner Irish Writers Centre Novel Fair, in 2018 was selected as a Words Ireland winner in the DWAD afternoon and then won the Mayo Business Woman of the Year (Arts) in the Network Ireland Business Woman of the Year Awards a year later.

Her contemporary fiction novels have achieved top ten best seller status across the US, UK, Australia and Canada. My Husbands Wives was a top ten bestseller in Ireland on release. The Ladies Midnight Swimming Club reached the overall No 1 position in the Amazon UK charts along with The Guest House by the Sea. The Bookshop Ladies is her tenth novel and is the brand new uplifting story of friendship and community from the #1 kindle bestselling author.

The Bookshop Ladies

‘A captivating read, written with warmth and elegance, The Bookshop Ladies is the perfect escape!’ Evie Woods, author of The Lost Bookshop

Joy Blackwood has no idea why her French art dealer husband has left a valuable painting to a woman called Robyn Tessier in Ballycove, a small town on the west coast of Ireland, but she is determined to find out.

She arrives in Ballycove to find that Robyn runs a rather chaotic and unprofitable bookshop. She is shy, suffering from unrequited love for dashing Kian, and badly in need of advice on how to make the bookshop successful.

As Joy becomes entangled in the daily dramas of Ballycove, uncovering the secrets behind her husband’s painting grows increasingly challenging. When she finally musters the courage to confront the truth, her revelation sends shockwaves through the tight-knit community she’s grown to love.

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