- Paperback: 488 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Books Australia (Feb 28 2003)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0140296700
- ISBN-13: 978-0140296709
- Product Dimensions: 17.5 x 11.2 x 4.6 cm
- Shipping Weight: 363 g
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Greetings from Somewhere Else, July 12 2009
By Willa Cline "Web Designer" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Greetings from Somewhere Else (Paperback)
Lainey is an event planner--highly organized, energetic, ambitious, a bit bossy. Her father is bedridden after an industrial accident and her mother is getting a bit fed up with the situation. Her three brothers are all a bit eccentric in their own way. And she and her boyfriend seem to be more or less ships passing in the night--he's a chef with his own restaurant, and with their schedules, it seems they hardly see each other at all.Into this chaos comes a new wrinkle -- an elderly aunt in Ireland has died, leaving a bed & breakfast to her brother, Lainey's father. That's wonderful news, since the family is struggling to pay medical bills, and waiting to get an insurance settlement. They plan to sell the B&B immediately, but there's a stipulation--one member of the family must come to Ireland and live for one year and manage the B&B, or they will lose the inheritance.
Lainey seems to be the logical--or only possible--choice, so she gives up her job, breaks up with her boyfriend, and heads to Ireland to run a B&B, despite never having spent much time either cooking or cleaning in her life.
I read this book in one long Sunday, and enjoyed it immensely. It reminded me a bit of a Cecelia Ahern novel, but that may just have been because of the Irish characters. The book was very well written, and by the end of the book I felt I knew the characters. Lainey grows up in the process of the book, and learns a lot, both about the B&B business, and about herself.
I highly recommend this book, and will search out more of Ms. McInerney's novels.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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Excellent read, Sep 14 2009
By Jacqueline Laughlin "JackieL" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Greetings from Somewhere Else (Paperback)
I enjoyed this novel. Would recommend it highly. The author developed rich characters.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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engaging complex chick lit tale, July 8 2009
By Harriet Klausner - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Greetings from Somewhere Else (Paperback)
In Melbourne, Complete Events Management Lainey Byrne is used to wacky chaos when she sponsors an event, but always brings it together to the satisfaction of the client. Her personal life is also somewhat out of control as her boyfriend Adam the chef seems never around and her parents and three brothers leap from one end of the world crisis to another always expecting her to fix it, which she does quite nicely. Handling people chaos is her expertise.Her agitated mom informs Lainey they need her help (what else is new). In Ireland, her paternal Aunt May left her B&B to her brother with the stipulation that the family must take over running the place for a year; if they fail to meet her condition, her cats become the owner. The family selects Lainey to run the place over her objection that she is busy, can't cook and never cleans; important aspects of running a B&B. Instead Lainey loses the argument and heads to Ireland worried about leaving her loved ones to fend for themselves while struggling with an adjustment to life in the country and running the B&B. She feels fortunate to connect with her childhood friend Evie and begins to learn to pick and choose her charge up the hill moments while mostly let it be.
This is an engaging complex chick lit tale of an alpha female who has by default and overall personality trait become the prime caretaker of her extended family until she leaves them behind. While Lainey learns that she cannot care for everyone and handle everything; her parents and three brothers also learn responsibly to take care of their so called end of the world crisis. Read will enjoy GREETINGS FROM SOMEWHERE ELSE as life lessons comes to the Byrne brood.
Harriet Klausner
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