Bøger af Martina Reilly

Have you ever wanted to take a parenting quiz? Or discover how NOT to make a Halloween costume? Have you ever wanted to find out the ugly reality behind a family holiday or discover how to discipline a child with the help of a very special deity?If so, this book is for you! You won't learn ANYTHING about parenting but you might laugh. And identify.... It's a selection of pieces I wrote for various newspapers chronicling my journey as a parent of two young children. Two children, who despite my hopelessness, grew up to be wonderful people.I am indebted to them for allowing me to re-publish this material again. All the proceeds of this book will go to two charities that I have a special affection for - CanTeen Ireland and The Rape Crisis Centre. CanTeen Ireland offers support to teenagers who have or have had cancer and the Rape Crisis Centre provides free counselling to survivors of sexual violence.

What happens when a nice girl meets a very very bad boy? April hates all things medical and yet her folks have her pinned down as the next Dr. Barnard. Things get worse when they dump her on a laid-back soccer mad family that she doesn't know from Adam. And they get worse when despite the warnings she falls for the maddest, craziest guy in town. But it's great when he falls for her!A heart warming romance....

When steady, dependable artist Eve Cole finds herself sitting by a pool in Florida with an ex-conman, hatching a plan to steal back a painting reportedly worth eleven million euro, she has to ask herself how the hell she wound up here.Her life has always been ordered, safe, predictable. Now, it's anything but, and if planning an art heist isn't enough, she also finds herself falling for the (admittedly gorgeous) ex-con, Larry.Because everyone knows no conman is ever truly reformed, right? Especially not one with as many secrets to hide as Larry.As plans for the robbery get underway, Eve quickly discovers that in love, as in art, it's not always easy to spot the real thing when it comes along. Sometimes, you just have to listen to your heart.

Nothing lasts for ever . . . does it?

Lizzie Walsh has moved to Dublin to start her life again - she has a great job as a fundraiser, a boyfriend she's crazy about and friends she loves. Until, leaving work late one evening, she runs into the one person she just can't run away from.Lizzie was only a teenager when, ten years ago, her sister Megan drowned. A local boy, Joe, was sentenced to life imprisonment for murder. Now Joe is back, released from prison on good behaviour, and he, too, wants to put the past to rest. But Lizzie can't stop thinking about the pain he's caused her family - it doesn't seem fair that he should be able to let go. Then, as Lizzie slowly gains his confidence, her own falters: Joe isn't quite what she expected. Can she find the strength to let old wounds heal?

Hope Gleeson wants to go travelling, to escape her boring London life and plan a happier future. But the unthinkable happens - the plane taking her to sunnier climes experiences technical problems and crash lands. Hope is one of only seventeen people to survive, saved from death by the man sitting next to her.Hope wakes up in hospital with her best friends Adam and Julie at her side. They are taking her home to Ireland, they tell her, to recuperate. But home is the last place Hope wants to go - she has too many secrets to hide... The Summer of Secrets is the brilliant new novel from the wonderful Martina Reilly. Combining gentle humour with darker, real-life issues, this is fiction you won't want to put down.