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Themes: Family (especially sisters!), Ireland and NYC during 1950s to 2000‘s, Great storytelling!

I was hooked from page 1 of this beautifully written book 🥰 Mary Beth Keane has a gift for amazing storytelling and scenery setting; you‘ll shiver from the rain she describes and feel yourself warm up with her descriptions of drinking tea beside a roaring fire. A definite pick!!!

Why yes, I did “treat myself” to some tea after I cleaned up the kitchen post-dinner 😆👵🏼 Settling in for some ‘Finding Your Roots‘ with a little book reading on this crazy Tuesday night 😍🥰

Good. Even though this is Mary Beth Keane's debut novel and has been out in the US since 2009 it is finally being published here in the UK on 4th March 2021. This book centres on two sisters and the secrets they keep to hold their family together. Throughout this book nothing extraordinary happens but Mary writes in such a way that keeps you hooked to the very end and keeps you longing for more.

#TheWalkingPeople

Thanks to #penguinrandomhouse for the opportunity to read this book.

The Walking People follows the lives of Irish immigrants to New York. The first part of the novel, in Ireland in the 50s, started off very slowly and it took me a while to become involved but I loved the parts set in NYC.

This is Keane‘s first novel and I didn‘t love it as much as Ask Again,Yes (but that one was one of my faves of last year) but still recommended - 4 stars.

So, this is rather exciting.... an email from Penguin Random House offering me the opportunity to read The Walking People.

I really loved ‘Ask Again, Yes‘ so very much looking forward to this one.