Helpful Score: 3
Short stories from famous Irish authors including Maeve Binchy. There's lots of great stories in this book. I discovered many new authors.
A pleasant read. Short stories collections are one of my favorite reads and this one did not disappoint.
Some great stories by authors I know and love and some by authors that are new to me. A great sampler for anyone interested in Irish women's fiction.
I enjoyed this book a lot. Lovely read.
Great book of short stories, funny, sad and romantic.
Great to take with you in your pocket or purse for a quick read when
you have a little down time,
Great to take with you in your pocket or purse for a quick read when
you have a little down time,
I love these short stories.
Great book! Loved this funny provocative book.
Cute but too short stories about young Irish women seeking adventure and love.
A collection of modern short stories by the best Irish authors.
New York Times bestselling authors Maeve Binchy and Marian Keyes top an impressive roster of the Emerald Isle's most popular women writers as the celebrate the joys and perils of love and the adventure and constancy of femal friendships.
A cute collection of short stories
Found some new authors I like and read a couple of short stories from my favorites. All in all a great book!
Fun book!
Very fun!
16 Irish short stories by Irish women authors.
This is a great collection of shorts, each author has her own style,it's little juicy tidbits.
Some of my all=time favorite Irish authors in this collection - Maeve Binchy, Marian Keyes - a wonderful collection and fun chic lit read, Irish-style!
The ultimate feel-good book, funny, ironic, thrilling and provocative.
Short, sweet stories by some of the best Irish women authors. "A feel-good book," and a quick read.
Irish short stories.
Multiple short stories som better than others - easy read - great descriptive writing
Irish Girls About Town is an anthology of sixteen short stories by Irish women writers. Given the title of the book, and the fact that the cover is mostly a bright pink, you might think that most of the stories in this book would be chick lit. Well some are, and some aren't. It's a delightful mix of chick lit featuring young Irish women and women's literature featuring more mature Irish women. Some of my favorite stories were:
The Twenty-Eighth Day by Catherine Barry - A hilarious rendition of what one woman's family suffers as she suffers through a full day of full blown PMT (which is the Irish term for PMS).
Moving by Colette Caddle - A married woman who gave up a married lover and "settled" for a man she only liked finds out that maybe regrets are all they are cracked up to be.
The Ring Cycle by Martina Devlin - I loved this one! A divorced woman wants to get rid of her wedding ring, but can't bring herself to throw it in the trash. She finds it's much harder than she thought it would be to get the ring out of her house.
And thirteen other stories. Some made me howl with laughter. Some made me cry. Some had great twists at the end. Some just made me go "Huh?". Like most anthologies, it was a mixed bag. But with this many stories in the book, you know that there are bound to be SOME that you love.
The Twenty-Eighth Day by Catherine Barry - A hilarious rendition of what one woman's family suffers as she suffers through a full day of full blown PMT (which is the Irish term for PMS).
Moving by Colette Caddle - A married woman who gave up a married lover and "settled" for a man she only liked finds out that maybe regrets are all they are cracked up to be.
The Ring Cycle by Martina Devlin - I loved this one! A divorced woman wants to get rid of her wedding ring, but can't bring herself to throw it in the trash. She finds it's much harder than she thought it would be to get the ring out of her house.
And thirteen other stories. Some made me howl with laughter. Some made me cry. Some had great twists at the end. Some just made me go "Huh?". Like most anthologies, it was a mixed bag. But with this many stories in the book, you know that there are bound to be SOME that you love.
