Release date - 8th February 2018 (Paperback)
Book length - 416 pages Publisher - Avon Book Depository - www.bookdepository.com Amazon UK - www.amazon.co.uk Amazon US - www.amazon.com I want to thank Sabah from Avon Books for the opportunity to take part in this blog tour and for providing me with a copy of this book for review. I also have a great extract for you all to enjoy which you can read further down. ABOUT THE BOOK A sparkling story about what happens when you let someone into your life… but they turn out to want more than you’d bargained for! Sarah Keyes has the perfect life. A high-flying job in a law firm, a beautiful daughter and a house to die for. So how does she find herself looking in through the kitchen window while another woman enjoys it all? When Sarah takes pity on a struggling young graduate who can’t get a job, she thinks she’s doing the right thing. She’s being kind, generous and helpful to others, as she always is. But as Sarah allows the younger woman into her home, her law firm and even her family, is there more to this pretty youngster than meets the eye? And could this be a good deed that goes further than expected? Claudia Carroll does it again with a sparkling new novel about what happens when your life becomes up for grabs… MY REVIEW OUR LITTLE SECRET by Claudia Carroll is most certainly the best book ever from this author!!! Compelling, addictive, and completely entertaining, OUR LITTLE SECRET is everything you want in a great novel and more, and this would make the perfect tv drama. Sarah Keyes adores her career and works very hard both in her law firm and volunteering as free legal aid. The only thing more important to her is her beautiful teenage daughter, Darcy. But ever since the separation from her husband, Darcy has been pulling away from her and giving her attitude at every turn, but Sarah will keep working hard and being kind and open-hearted because that is just who she is. So when she accidentally meets Lauren, a bright and considerate young woman who yearns to work in law, Sarah takes her under her wing and goes above and beyond to become her friend and confidant. Everything finally seems to be back on track as Lauren slots perfectly into her life, but when something seems to be too good to be true, it often is and Sarah's life soon takes a drastic turn ... Thanks to the Beast from the East storm, I was lucky enough to have plenty of reading time which was perfect timing because as soon as I started OUR LITTLE SECRET there was no way I was putting it down until the very end. I loved the fresh plot and the characters were riveting. I particularly loved Sarah's best friend Liz, who I completely related with, and I found myself shouting at Sarah in exactly the same way that Liz was too. The plot is dynamic and disturbingly possible which made it all the better. With plenty of ups and downs, this story of secrecy, family, and friendship really is superb and I highly recommend OUR LITTLE SECRET by Claudia Carroll to fiction fans everywhere. READ ON FOR A SNEAK PEEK FROM THE FIRST CHAPTER OF THIS INCREDIBLE BOOK. EXTRACT Sarah Saturday morning and with yet another long, lonely day stretching out ahead of me, I was out of bed early and stuck into work not long after. By eleven, I was fully up to speed on one case and by early afternoon, not only had I drafted a rough brief for our Defence, but I’d even got around to hoovering the entire house, changing the bed sheets and doing a perfunctory tidy on Darcy’s room, which she’d doubtless crucify me for when she got home. (‘Mum, you were AT MY STUFF!’). I can remember particularly wanting to get all the Saturday chores out of the way because that day, I was a woman on a mission. In spite of all Tom’s forebodings, I still hadn’t forgotten about Lauren, that lovely, sweet girl in the nail salon from the day before. I couldn’t; she’d been on my mind all night. So why not go back there, I thought? Why couldn’t this be my good deed for the day? After all, it was firm and guiding principle of mine that we were all put on this earth to help each other. And maybe Tom was right and maybe the young one was completely fantasising about her legal qualifications, but what was so wrong with seeing her again and just hearing what she had to say? I’d be out and about anyway and it wasn’t that far out of my way to go back to the salon. So I drove to Mountjoy Street, found parking, then braced myself for the icy cold as I retraced my steps back towards the Indian takeaway, which was directly below the salon. Funny how it all came back to me, the smell of garlic and ginger that seeped out onto the street and the dingy looking bookies shop next door, where shouts of encouragement were being yelled at some horse race that was in full swing on the telly inside. As it happened I shouldn’t even have been there in the first place the previous day; Phibsboro wasn’t in my neck of the woods at all. But I had a meeting with an inmate in Mountjoy Prison who needed my help with some free legal aid work, and I could only get parking on the same street where the salon was. Then while I was walking back to my car after the meeting, I noticed that the nail bar were doing SHELLAC manicures for just €20, ridiculously cheap for Dublin. I was on my lunch break, I’d a bit of time to spare, and I just walked in off the street, simple as that. For the second time in twenty-four hours, I found myself tripping up that dangerously uneven staircase, with the paint peeling off the walls and an overriding stench of damp, all the way up to the salon above. When I stepped inside, the same surly looking receptionist who’d been there the previous day was still sitting behind the desk, looking bored and thumbing through OK! magazine. ‘Hi there,’ I said, ‘I was in here yesterday having my nails done and I’d just like to—’ ‘Is there a problem?’ she interrupted, eyeing me up and down suspiciously as if I’d come to shut the place down. She was skeletally thin, this one, and middle-aged, with a headful of badly dyed orange hair, grey roots clearly on show. AUTHOR BIO: Claudia Carroll is a number one bestselling author in Ireland and a top ten bestseller in the UK, selling over 670,000 copies of her paperbacks alone. She was born in Dublin where she still lives and where she has worked extensively both as a theatre and stage actress. She now writes full-time. Her 2013 novel ME AND YOU was shortlisted for the Bord Gais Popular Choice Irish Book Award. Her previous novel ALL SHE EVER WISHED FOR spent 12 weeks at the top of the Irish charts. For more information: Twitter - twitter.com/carrollclaudia?lang=en Facebook - www.facebook.com/Claudiacarrollbooks/ Instagram - www.instagram.com/claudiacarrollbooks/ DON'T FORGET TO CHECK OUT ALL OF THE OTHER STOPS ALONG THE WAY!!!
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