Release date - 8th February 2018 (Paperback)
Book length - 464 pages Publisher - Michael Joseph (Penguin) Book Depository - www.bookdepository.com Amazon UK - www.amazon.co.uk Amazon US - www.amazon.com I voluntarily reviewed this book from Netgalley.com. ABOUT THE BOOK Number One bestseller Monica McInerney tells a heart-warming, humorous story about family and coming to terms with the past 'I always thought memories were unchangeable. Set in stone, shaped by the years. But there are always others too, ones you haven't let yourself remember . . .' The wilful and eccentric Lola Quinlan is off on the trip of a lifetime, taking her beloved granddaughter and great-granddaughter with her. More than sixty years after emigrating to Australia, she's keeping a secret promise to return to her Irish homeland. Lola has always been her family's port in a storm, but she's hiding the hurtful reason she left Ireland as a young woman. Lola's walk down memory lane will force her to confront her bittersweet past - and discover that the truth can indeed set you free . . . The Trip of a Lifetime is a moving story about the light and dark times of life, and a colourful, big-hearted family you'll want to call your own. MY REVIEW Yet again Monica McInerney has opened up a world of family, love, warmth, and heartbreaking secrets that will sweep you up and hold your attention until the very end of the story. Lola is a quirky, stubborn, and absolutely wonderful woman in her eighties who decides it is time to return to Ireland for a trip that she needs to make. Going along for the ride is Lola's granddaughter and great-granddaughter. It has been a long time since she has set foot on the Emerald Isle but as memories from the past resurface, secrets will be set free and the importance of family will take centre stage even more. The characters are very relatable and I quickly fell in love with Lola and her beloved family. Moving from past to present, Lola's life and the truth about what happened to her help to show us how she has become the woman that she is today. As always, the settings of Australia and Ireland are described with breathtaking detail and make you feel like you are there which is such an important part of a good story. THE TRIP OF A LIFETIME by Monica McInerney is a superb story of family and recognising our past no matter how much it may hurt, and I thoroughly recommend this book to fiction fans the world over. Author Bio: Monica McInerney is the internationally bestselling author of eleven novels including Hello from the Gillespies, The House of Memories, Lola's Secret, At Home with the Templetons, Family Baggage, The Alphabet Sisters and Those Faraday Girls (which was named the General Fiction Book of the Year in the 2008 Australian Book Industry Awards.) Monica grew up in a family of seven children in the Clare Valley wine region of South Australia, where her father was the railway stationmaster and her mother worked in the local library. Before becoming a full-time writer she worked in children’s television, tourism festivals, book publishing, arts marketing, the music industry and as a waitress, a hotel cleaner, a Kindergym instructor and a temp. For the past twenty-three years she and her Irish husband have been moving back and forth between Australia and Ireland. For more information: Website - www.monicamcinerney.com Twitter - twitter.com/MonicaMcInerney Facebook - www.facebook.com/monicamcinerneyauthor/ Instagram - www.instagram.com/monicamcinerneyauthor/
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