A Place Called Here - Cecelia Ahern

I've read previous Celia Ahern books and always enjoyed them. She has a lovely gentle style of writing that's very descriptive and delightful to read. This book continues in this way and is up to her usual high standard. The story keeps you interested right until the end and the characters are all well developed and likeable. She uses words to paint pictures and you can really imagine the imaginative place of Here as she describes ...  Read the complete review

I have started reading approximately five or six different books in the last month and just not been able to 'get into' any of them. Yesterday I wandered into a charity shop and saw two Cecelia Ahern books I hadn't yet read. I'd already read 'Thanks for the memories' and 'Where Rainbows End' and really liked both as well as finding them both incredibly easy to read, so although I hadn't planned on buying any more books, I bought them. I started with 'A Place called Here' as I had already read the blurb on Amazon and it sounded really intriguing. ~The Plot~ The story focuses on Sandy Shortt, a woman who runs a missing persons agency. She ...  Read the complete review

Sandy Shortt has always been obsessed with finding things ever since, at the age of ten, her classmate disappeared without a trace. Now, 20 years on, she has turned her obsession of finding odd socks and any manner of small objects into her own business - finding people. That is, until Sandy goes missing herself. Jack Ruttle is desperate to find his missing brother when everyone else seems to have given up hope only a year after his disappearance. As a last bid, he contacts Sandy and she convinces him that she can find him. When Sandy goes missing, Jack is still convinced that Sandy holds the key to finding his brother Donal and so makes it his mission to ...  Read the complete review

A Place Called Here, published in 2006, is the fourth novel by Cecilia Ahern, daughter of Ireland's former Prime Minister Bertie Ahern. **What is it about?** Sandy Shortt has always been obsessed with finding lost things, ever since her ten year old neighbour Jenny-May disappeared, never to be seen again, twenty four years ago. She drives her family, and others, insane with her need to know where lost things go and can't just accept that they could be misplaced. Years later, her quest for finding lost things and people lead to her running a missing persons agency and devoting all of her time to helping to find people who have ...  Read the complete review

Cecelia Ahern is a best-selling Irish novelist and author of many novels including PS I Love You which was recently made into a film. A Place Called Here is her fourth novel. It tells the story of Sandy Shortt, who at 6ft 1 is anything but short. Sandy is obsessed by finding things that are lost whether it be socks or people. This obsession has stemmed from childhood when a girl in her class Jenny-May Butler disappeared and Sandy was left wondering where do things and people go when they get lost. As Sandy grew up this never left her and she devoted her life to looking for missing people. However whilst working on a case to look for a missing ...  Read the complete review