The Ladies' Midnight Swimming Club

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Review: The Tuscan Orphan by Siobhan Daiko @siobhandaiko @BoldwoodBooks @rararesources #blogtour #newrelease #BoldwoodBloggers #histfic #romance #WW2 #RespectRomFic #TheTuscanOrphan November 16, 2023

The three ladies all become closer and when Jo challenges them all to go for a midnight swim they decide to go for it. Review: Murder at the Matterhorn by T A Williams @tawilliamsbooks @BoldwoodBooks @rararesources #blogtour #publicationday #BoldwoodBloggers #cosycrime #ArmstrongandOscar #MurderattheMatterhornI know that I am in safe hands when it comes to a Faith Hogan book and this one did not disappoint. I was warmly welcomed in like an old friend and caught up in the most sincere story imaginable.

I was hooked from the get go, how initially 2 women come together at night to find escspe from daily life, it made me want to go midnight swimming and I don't particularly like swimming or the sea!I have to say, I guessed about one particular event in the book, but I was really happy it worked out that way. The Ladies Midnight Swimming Club is a beautifully paced and plotted story about the indomitable spirit of friendship told from the points of view of all the major characters. Despite, or maybe because of this, it flows seamlessly and seemingly effortlessly through the various crises the characters face.

As well as the women we also meet Dan who had rented a cottage in the village after leaving his high-flying job and needing some time out and Lucy’s teenage son Niall who hates his boarding school and wants to come home. Faith Hogan knows her characters well, bringing them very much alive to the reader as we journey through the good and the bad times with them. They become much more than individuals. They become the readers’ friends. Jo, Elizabeth and Lucy all come to realise the importance of true friendship, in particular in times of trouble. Full of warmth and plenty of emotional moments, Faith Hogan sensitively handles very relevant societal and health issues. I am sure there are many readers who will be very personally affected by some of the threads running through this novel but Faith Hogan treats the issues in question with great respect, and with a very gentle hand. Elizabeth is grieving the loss of her husband. They may not have have the best of marriages but she is feeling lost without him. That is until Elizabeth finds out that he has left her with crippling debts and that she is at risk of losing everything. Of course, the cover reveal is, in many ways, just another step on the journey to publication. You know the way they say it takes a village to raise a child – well, books are a little like that!Set in a small coastal Irish town, The Ladies' Midnight Swimming Club is told from multiple perspectives. There's Elizabeth, whose life feels like it's only just beginning following the death of her husband. There's her best friend Jo, whose daughter Lucy and son Niall visit from Dublin. Lucy agrees to help at Elizabeth's late husband's GP clinic and in the interim becomes a founding member of The Ladies' Midnight Swimming Club alongside Jo and Elizabeth. Finally, there's Dan, a visiting writer from London who's come to Ballycove to finally discover where his life began. Three women all facing a crisis in their lives - and set in an idyllic little town of Ballycove in Ireland. Elizabeth, wife of the village doctor, finds herself left with huge debts when her husband dies. As she faces the future she also faces the boundaries of her married life. Kasia appears to be wiser and more philosophical than each of the other women, why do you think that is? Review: Snowbound With The Brooding Lord by Sarah Mallory @SarahMRomance @MillsandBoon @HarlequinBooks #publicationday #histfic #RegencyRomance #RespectRomFic November 23, 2023

I loved these women, they are lovely, funny, inspiring and brave. At the end I wanted to sign up for their club and to hug them. Although it was emptied over a quarter of a century ago, there was no denying its looming presence; there was an eerie feeling of ghosts who would never fully rest. Well, what can I say? It’s finally here – thanks to my publishers and Easons for finally sharing the cover for my new book! What do you think? I’m totally in love with it, I just want to dive in there next to Elizabeth, Lucy and Jo…. Three women, all going through some sort of trauma or big change in their lives meets nightly at midnight to swim in the freezing waters of the Irish Sea. One recently divorced doctor who's raising a young teen on her own, her mother, a woman who has denied her ill health for a while and now has found out she's dying of cancer, and a recently widowed woman who after her husband's death has learned he was not the man she thought he was and has left her to deal with mounting debt that could leave her penniless. THE LADIES MIDNIGHT SWIMMING CLUB is an inspiring tale of friendship, fortitude, and resilience. The setting is delightfully picturesque, with the golden sand beaches of Ireland’s west Atlantic coast, where a midnight dip in the frigid waters creates a bond and heals more than one troubled soul.

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This time, I’m delighted to introduce you to three women who may not have made all the right decisions in life, but bouyed up by each other and a mad notion to take on the nearby water by moonlight find that the solution to their worries is perhaps much closer to hand than they at first believed. Dan’s scriptwriting job in London has come to an ignominious end and he’s taking the opportunity to see if he can write the novel he has always planned, and a quiet cottage in Ballycove is the ideal spot. It also presents what he sees as the last chance to find the birth mother who gave him up thirty years earlier.