I received a free copy of this book from Penguin Ireland in exchange for an honest review.

Lola Quinlan is 85 years old when she decides to return to her home country of Ireland after over 60 years away with her granddaughter and great granddaughter. However, Lola quickly realises there’s some memories of Ireland she may need to confront, and finally talk to her family about her past.

This was a fun, family-orientated book that I quite enjoyed, and I would recommend people who have read and loved The Alphabet Sisters to read this too as it focuses on the same family, just five years later. I really enjoyed seeing where the sisters had gone in the past five years since the events of The Alphabet Sisters.

Lola is just as mad and eccentric as ever, and I enjoyed seeing the family adventures in Ireland. There wasn’t as much Ireland as I would have liked, and I was surprised at the direction the book took but it wasn’t an overly unpleasant turn either. One of my favourite things about this book was the hired chauffeur Des. He was hilarious, and I just felt like his gift of the gab, and his penchant for putting his foot a bit too over the line in friendly helpfulness and earnestness so funny and typically Irish.

There were parts of this I didn’t like - mainly the relationship between Geraldine and Lola at the end. I was a bit disgusted that Geraldine raised doubts over Lola’s story about Edward and why she left him. And I felt a bit flat that near the end of the story there was the unpleasant exchange between Beth and Geraldine and that Geraldine was still so awful. I’m not sure if it’s a hint that another book could come focused on Geraldine and Jim, but I didn’t like those scenes at all and I really dislike Geraldine as a character.