Lessons in Heartbreak - Cathy Kelly

This is a book set between New York and Ireland, the past and present. It follows the lives of Izzie Silver and her close friends and family. Izzie meets Joe, a married man who she falls in love with and he has a huge impact on her life and the decisions she makes. She doesn't realise that her life is mirrored more than she can imagine by her grandmother Lily who falls ill back home in Ireland whilst Izzie is making a go of her own Model Agency. We then meet Izzy's aunt Annelise, whose husband changes her life when she discovers his infidelity and this starts her off on the self-destruct route. The two settings of the book make it quite interesting as we delve ...  Read the complete review

I have quite a few favourite authors whose books I will buy in hardback when they are released, as I am so eager to get their books! However, Cathy Kelly doesn't fall into this category for me. I didn't want to spend loads on this book as I find her books a bit hit and miss, so I actually reserved my copy from the local library and loandbehold, just a week after its release, my copy was ready to be collected. It was a chunky old hardback, not my favourite, but I got ready to read it, hoping it wouldn't be a disappointment as some of her books have been to me. Lessons In Heartbreak follows the lives of 3 women of different generations in one family, and their ...  Read the complete review