Books by Cathy Kelly
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review 1: Cathy Kelly draws you into life in a rural Irish village in her own inimitable way. Her characters are as usual a mixture of happy and sad, downtrodden, upbeat and madcap people, who come to know each other and share their loves, lives, troubles and joys throughout the book. I ...
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review 1: I have to admit i was drawn to the cover of this book and Christmas is my favorite time of the year so i was excited to read a Christmas book but that where all the excitement stopped. When i first started reading this book i actually realized it was about 19 short stories and no...
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review 1: Reading this book felt like having a great chat with a close friend. Cathy Kelly fans will not be disappointed: it's superbly written and the characters are easy to identify with. The story starts off with a romantic proposal between Michael and Katy on the top of the Eiffel towe...
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review 1: Set in the Irish town of Avalon, we see how the lives of four women are interwoven as they help each other deal with their pasts and look with hope to the future. Danae, is a transplant and the town's postmistress who has secrets of her own that are revealed with the help of her ...
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review 1: With a 5 hour train journey to and from Scotland and London to fill I had to pick my reading material with care so I took along the newest paperback by Cathy Kelly. I thoroughly enjoyed this latest installment by the irish authoress and liked the way that it brought together the ...
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review 1: Cathy Kelly has put together a collection of lovely short stories that span her writing career, she candidly mentions at the end that it was strange to look back on her old work, but did enjoy editing them and looking at mistakes from the past. These were all very enjoyable with ...
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review 1: This started off slow for me and I almost abandoned it. But after a few chapters it kicked-in for me and I ended up liking it a lot. The reason I picked it up in the first place is because she was compared to Maeve Binchy in some reviews. Cathy Kelly is an Irish writer and, li...
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review 1: Got past the first few chapters, but lost interest and haven't been bothered to get back to it. I'm not interested enough to get back to it, and so I'm probably going to sell it. I'm so saddened that I had to pay $30 for such a dull book, and this was my first Cathy Kelly book. I...
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review 1: First of all, I will start and say that the book is ok, it really is. And for people who want to relax and to spend some of their free time in reading, it is a fair book. There are some beautiful quotes and the stories of the women are interesting. And in other circumstances I wo...
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review 1: I was a little disappointed in this book. My first Cathy Kelly book was "The Honey Queen" and, after reading that book, I thought the stories about her becoming "the next Maeve Binchy" were correct. This book, Once in a Lifetime, was just an ordinary story about 4 women th...
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review 1: This book started out great with a proposal at the top of the Eiffel tower, however after the prologue it really started to go down hill.It took me ages to read this book, and several times I though about giving up on it, however I finish ploughed through it and got to the end.I ...
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review 1: Cathy Kelly's It Started With Paris, a novel, predictable, leaving not much to the imagination. The plot was worthwhile, romantic, day to day life, relationships, but Cathy tells us everything. She tells us about the characters and how they feel, we are not left to use our own th...