“The Existential Worries of Mags Munroe” by Jean Grainger – Book Review #ReadingIrelandMonth23 #TheExistentialWorriesOfMagsMunroe #JeanGrainger #IrishFiction #BookReview

"The Existential Worries of Mags Munroe" by Jean Grainger - Book Review #ReadingIrelandMonth23 #TheExistentialWorriesOfMagsMunroe #JeanGrainger #IrishFiction #BookReview

I cherished Mags Munroe’s bones. He was such a real character. This, the primary e book in a trilogy, follows Mags by her days within the small city of Ballycarrick, Eire. The reader is conscious of his ideas, his worries and his scrumptious humorousness.

Mags is forty-eight and lives along with her beloved husband, Kieran, who works as a roofer, and her two daughters whom she adores. She has an antagonistic relationship along with her stepmother in comparison with a loving and shut relationship along with her personal mom. On the finish of her forties, Mags skilled signs of perimenopause, a lot to her chagrin and embarrassment. She is a humorous, type and really clever girl.

When issues in Ballycarrick go from the mundane to the critically critical, Mags is examined professionally and personally. One of many native Traveler group members is murdered and Mags was the primary on the scene. We see her assembly the challenges of her residence and dealing with intelligence and humor.

“We’re all the identical, we deal with the little stuff as a result of the large stuff is just too terrifying.”

Vacationers and their lifestyle determine prominently in historical past. The innate bias of “sedentary” residents in opposition to Vacationers is made abundantly clear – even inside the Gardai ranks. Mags works to ease tensions between Vacationers and the town, which is commonly a troublesome process.

The small city of Ballycarrick was typical in that everybody knew one another and was filled with nosy however caring neighbors. A spot filled with gossip.

This e book was an ideal mix of police procedurals and girls’s fiction. I completely devoured this novel and might’t wait to learn the sequel to the Mags Munroe trilogy. Extremely really useful!

I learn this title through my Kindle Limitless subscription. All opinions are mine.A SIN: B09QVSK7HM – ISBN: 9781915790019 – 214 pages

The Mags Munroe Trilogy

John Grainger is a USA Right this moment bestselling creator from Cork, Eire. She writes participating and intriguing Irish historic fiction in addition to heartwarming up to date novels which are steadily discovered on Amazon’s bestseller lists. Her type has been in comparison with the late nice Maeve Binchy, of whom she was an enormous fan.

Earlier than writing, she was a tour information to her beloved Eire, a college historical past trainer and a secondary college trainer. (She additionally tried to promote issues, however the much less mentioned about it, the higher).

She cherished all of these careers, however finally opted to spend most of her day in her pajamas inventing issues, surrounded by empty teacups and crumbs.

She lives in a two-hundred-year-old Irish stone home in County Cork, is married to a stunning boy, has 4 attractive kids, and two micro-dogs named Scrappy and Scoobi who’re cute however clueless.

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