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Fiona O'Brien (Author)
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December 2010
One moment, Shelley has everything - three beautiful children, an adoring property magnate husband, and the life of her dreams. Then Charlie's business empire crashes and he vanishes. While their privileged beautiful daughters Olivia and Emma have to come to terms with being broke, eleven-year-old Mac refuses to talk about what happened. When Charlie's estranged mother, Vera opens her doors to the broken family, secrets emerge that reveal there was more to Charlie than meets the eye. But Charlie's shell shocked family aren't the only ones asking questions ...The darkly enigmatic Russian billionaire Lukaz Mihailov arrives in Dublin with some unfinished business. What better way to track down Charlie than befriend his pretty and very vulnerable, abandoned wife Shelley ...Is blood is always thicker than water? Maybe Charlie's family are simply better off without him ...

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'A delicious novel: full of warmth, glamour and excitement.' -- CATHY KELLY 20071012 Long lunches, hot evenings and plenty of sex - O'Brien never puts a foot wrong. -- Irish Independent 20080614 The right mix of heartfelt emotion and upbeat humour -- Image magazine 20080701 Perfect for the Pool -- Belfast Telegraph 20080530 An ideal holiday read -- Evening Herald 20080525 'An exciting new face in Irish women's fiction. Escape to the back garden for an engrossing summer read -- Irish Independent 20090620 Grown-up, intelligent fiction. She just gets better and better. -- Cathy Kelly 20090101 Witty and warm emotion mixed with tense excitement will have you engrossed from the start. Definitely one for the suitcase. -- RTE Guide 20100601

About the Author

Fiona O'Brien lives in Dublin. She began her career in advertising, finding a happy outlet for her 'off the wall -- but on the mark' creative talents. She worked in both Ogilvy & Mather and J Walter Thompson in London and later in Bell and DDFH&B Advertising in Dublin as an award-winning copywriter. Fiona left advertising to write full time. Without Him is her third novel with Hachette Books Ireland.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 471 pages
  • Publisher: Hodder Headline Ireland (December 2010)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0340994894
  • ISBN-13: 978-0340994894
  • Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6 x 1.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,059,020 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Fiona O'Brien is a best selling author of women's fiction.
After a convent education and a spell at university she began her career as an advertising copywriter working in London and Dublin where she was responsible for many award winning commercials. When she grew tired of being confined to one page A4 and three lines of copy she left advertising to begin work on her first novel.
Fiona lives in her hometown of Dublin, Ireland, and is a hopeless animal lover. She enjoys reading, walking on the beach with her dog, people watching and visiting clairvoyants.
Her books have been welcomed by some terrific reviews, and she has been described by The Bookseller (UK) as one of Ireland's real stars.
Fiona writes intuitively about modern women of all ages, their lives and loves, and in particular, family dynamics.
Her writing has been described as warm, witty, insightful and wise.
She is currently working on her sixth novel - and she really, really hopes you enjoy her books.
To learn more about Fiona and her writing, visit her website at www.fionaobrien.com

 

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3.0 out of 5 stars Lots of surprises!, June 12, 2011
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Fiona O'Brien has done a great job with this book. You think you know what's happened and what's going to happen, but you'll be wrong at almost every turn.

Charlie Fitzgibbon has pulled a disappearing act and left his family in the lurch. The once highly successful entrepreneur has somehow managed to goof up so badly, the new kitchen has to be repossessed and he forges his wife Shelley's signature and sells the house out from underneath her.

Shelley has no one and nowhere else to turn, so she turns to her mother-in-law Vera who has been estranged from Charlie for decades. So she moves herself and her three children into Vera's small three bedroom house.

Besides the surprise twists, the best part of the book was chapters from the point of views from all of the characters. You had direct insight into what each character was going through. This is my first Fiona O'Brien book, but it definitely won't be my last!
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