Cover and blurb from Goodreads Layla Byrnes is exhausted. She's juggling a demanding job as an anaesthetist, a disintegrating marriage, her young kids, and a needy lover. And most particularly she's managing her histrionically unstable mother, who repeatedly threatens to kill herself. But this year, it's different. When her mother rings just before Christmas, she doesn't … Continue reading Book Review: The Heart is a Star by Megan Rogers
Tag: fiction
Samhain: The Daughters of Eochu
A little glimpse of the early life of Queen Maeve: this is a short scene I wrote during a writers' group, hosted by Fiona O'Rourke. I am posting it publicly for the first time. You are not to leave this room, Aoife tells them. She looks sternly at each of them in turn, the six … Continue reading Samhain: The Daughters of Eochu


