The House of Second Chances

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Hachette Australia, Feb 12, 2019 - Fiction - 400 pages

Can a house heal heartache? From coastal Australia to the rugged beauty of Ireland, an enchanting novel of starting over, in the tradition of Maeve Binchy and Monica McInerney

Their grandmother's stone cottage was always a welcome retreat in the childhood summers of Ellen and Aidan O'Shea. After a trip home from Australia, Ellen is keen to bring the neglected home back to its former glory and enlists the help of her dear friend and one of Ireland's top interior designers, Colette Barry.

Aidan is already begrudging the work on the house he has avoided for nearly twenty years. The last thing the builder needs is an interior designer who seems to do nothing but complicate his life. With their own personal heartaches to overcome, will Aidan and Colette find the courage to give the house and themselves a second chance?

*Includes BONUS extract from Esther's heartwarming novel A Week to Remember*
Praise for Esther Campion's debut novel, Leaving Ocean Road:
'Warm, wise and full of humour. Esther Campion is a wonderful new voice in Australian fiction' CATHY KELLY
'Join[s] the captivating Maeve Binchy in the pantheon of popular Irish novelists' Irish Scene
'An intelligent novel ... a poignant story about that journey everyone takes to find their own beloved place in the wide world' Better Reading

 

Contents

Prologue
Chapter Three
Chapter
Chapter Eight
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Seventeen
Chapter Nineteen
Chapter Twentytwo

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About the author (2019)

Esther Campion is from Cork, Ireland and currently lives in north-west Tasmania. She attended North Presentation Secondary School in Cork and has degrees from University College Cork and the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. Esther and her Orcadian husband have lived together in Ireland, Scotland, Norway and South Australia. They have two grown-up children in Adelaide and the youngest at home in Tassie. Esther loves sharing her life on a small property with an over-indulged chocolate Labrador, a smoochy cat and a couple of ageing mares, all of whom she firmly believes are living proof that dreams really can come true. Esther's heartwarming debut novel, Leaving Ocean Road, was followed by The House of Second Chances and A Week to Remember. The Writing Class is her fourth novel.

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