I absolutely adore Faith Hogan's books so it is my pleasure to share an extract from her latest novel, Secrets We Keep. You also have the chance to win a signed copy yourself so you really don't want to miss the giveaway at the end of the post!
Genre: Women’s Fiction
Release Date: February
2017
Publisher: Aria Fiction –
Head of Zeus
Two distant relatives,
drawn together in companionship are forced to confront their pasts
and learn that some people are good at keeping secrets and some
secrets are never meant to be kept..
A bittersweet story of
love, loss and life. Perfect for fans of Patricia Scanlan, Adele
Parks and Rosamunde Pilcher.
The beautiful old Bath
House in Ballytokeep has lain empty and abandoned for decades. For
devoted pensioners Archie and Iris, it holds too many conflicting
memories of their adolescent dalliances and tragic consequences –
sometimes it’s better to leave the past where it belongs.
For highflying, top London
divorce lawyer Kate Hunt, it’s a fresh start – maybe even her
future. On a winter visit to see her estranged Aunt Iris she falls in
love with the Bath House. Inspired, she moves to Ballytokeep leaving
her past heartache 600 miles away – but can you ever escape your
past or your destiny?
Extract from Secrets
We Keep by Faith Hogan
‘I’ve never seen anything
like it,’ Kate said. It was her first thought as they turned down
the cove and saw the bathhouse snuggled into the cliff face. It was a
turreted, stocky grown-ups sandcastle. ‘It could have been emptied
from a child’s bucket,’ was her first reaction. It had been
painted, white with a light blue trim once, then the waves and the
spray had all but washed that away. It still sat proudly, if
shabbily, on a huge flat rock, that upturned in a lip over the sea.
It was a plate, large enough for any giant.
‘Genesis Rock – it’s a
metamorphic rock, probably over a thousand million years old,’ Rita
said. ‘Sorry, did I mention I taught geography and home economics,
once upon a time.’
‘No, but I probably should
have guessed.’
‘I don’t remember the
bathhouse even being open. I could imagine that I’d have spent all
my days here if I had.’ Rita looked at the washed white walls that
reached high into the cliff face.
‘Well, Archie said they ran
it for a few years, but he didn’t say when it shut.’ This place
probably held sadness for Archie, if his brother died here. Kate
couldn’t feel it. Instead, it made her feel energized, as though
the sea was spraying something like an invitation deep into her
lungs. It made her heart pound with an expectation she hadn’t felt
in years. Even the deserted castle keep that loomed up in grey stone
at the tip of the headland seemed to carry a hopeful secret in its
towers.
‘It must have been lovely
once. Even now, you can see.’ Rita rested her hands on the thick
window ledge, her nose pressed firmly to the cold glass of the
windows. ‘It looks like they just closed up one evening and never
came back.’
Kate walked to the back of the
bathhouse; it dug into the cliff face, as though the construction of
one depended on the other. Alongside the building, a small narrow
road clung to the cliff for a couple of hundred yards before it
feathered off onto what counted as a main road in these parts. Far
below, the waves lapped serenely against the stone. It was low tide
now; Kate wondered how close the water actually came to the rock.
‘I’d love to get a look inside.’ Rita followed her round to the
front of the bathhouse. They peered through a sea sprayed window for
a few minutes. Inside, Kate could see there were tables and chairs, a
small stove and an old-fashioned counter where once someone had taken
orders for afternoon tea. ‘It’s a little cafĂ©, wouldn’t it be
lovely if it was open for coffee?’ Kate mused, it was so much more
than just a bathhouse.
How exciting! To discover an old bathhouse down by the coast, it gives me goosebumps just reading that extract again and I'm sure I can smell seaweed...
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ABOUT FAITH HOGAN
Already
an international best seller, Faith Hogan is an original voice in
women’s fiction, she has been hailed as a Maeve Binchey for a new
generation. Her stories are warm and rooted in a contemporary Irish
landscape which has lost none of its wit or emotion thanks to its
modern vibe.
Faith
Hogan was born in Ireland. She gained an Honours Degree in English
Literature and Psychology from Dublin City University and a
Postgraduate Degree from University College, Galway. She has worked
as a fashion model, an event’s organiser and in the intellectual
disability and mental health sector.
She
was a winner in the 2014 Irish Writers Centre Novel Fair – an
international competition for emerging writers.
‘Secrets We Keep,’ is her second novel published with Aria
Fiction. Her first, My Husbands Wives has been a top ten best seller
and is currently available in paperback.
Twitter:
@gerhogan
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Website:
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THE SECRETS WE KEEP by Faith Hogan sounds wonderful. What an honour for Faith to be compared to Maeve Binchey!
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