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A review by donnareadathon2021
The Lost Girls of Ireland by Susanne O'Leary
3.0
I kindly received an eARC advance copy of this book to read and review though NetGalley.
This story starts in Dublin where Lydia finds out the her late husband Barry has left her in dire straits. He was involved in fraud and money laundering and had a heart attack on the way to the airport. Luckily Lydia’s solicitor reminds her of her great aunt’s cottage by the coast that has been let since her death and suggests that Lydia and her teenage daughter Sunny go stay there once they have packed up the family home.
Some parts of this story are such a stretch of the imagination - she doesn’t remember the house herself? Very little emotion around the loss of a spouse and father? And then conveniently there is a handsome tall and dark neighbour Jason next door who just happens to chat through the fence to Lydia and falls in love with her on this basis.
After being voted the best-dressed in Ireland the year before, Lydia now works two hours a day as a cleaner and finds a job washing hair in a salon. Shew. This feels a little like a few books I have read previously but it’s the slightly more washed out, insipid version.
The history part where Lydia and Sunny find out about the Great Aunt are cool and the other characters in town are nice too, if not too fleshed out.
This story starts in Dublin where Lydia finds out the her late husband Barry has left her in dire straits. He was involved in fraud and money laundering and had a heart attack on the way to the airport. Luckily Lydia’s solicitor reminds her of her great aunt’s cottage by the coast that has been let since her death and suggests that Lydia and her teenage daughter Sunny go stay there once they have packed up the family home.
Some parts of this story are such a stretch of the imagination - she doesn’t remember the house herself? Very little emotion around the loss of a spouse and father? And then conveniently there is a handsome tall and dark neighbour Jason next door who just happens to chat through the fence to Lydia and falls in love with her on this basis.
After being voted the best-dressed in Ireland the year before, Lydia now works two hours a day as a cleaner and finds a job washing hair in a salon. Shew. This feels a little like a few books I have read previously but it’s the slightly more washed out, insipid version.
The history part where Lydia and Sunny find out about the Great Aunt are cool and the other characters in town are nice too, if not too fleshed out.