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Bright Lights and Promises

A poignant novel about love and understanding

Pauline Mclynn author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Headline Publishing Group

Published:10th Jan '08

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An Irish Times bestseller, Bright Lights and Promises is a mesmerising novel that deals with family relationships in touching detail.

It's not easy being the mother of a twelve-year-old boy who's in love with his babysitter and having trouble at school. Nor are matters helped by the unexpected arrival of an elderly mother who's suddenly footloose and fancy free. At least Susie Vine feels secure at Arland & Shaw, London's leading theatrical agency, where her clients love her almost as much as they love themselves. Then the man who broke her heart comes back into her life and she's forced to ask herself whether she was right to leave him all those years ago. Or is someone else waiting in the wings...?

'A winner. Pauline McLynn brings the same comic touches to her writing as she brought to the wonderful Mrs Doyle' * Daily Express *
'With her own brand of fierce intelligence and deft humour...McLynn delivers an elegant turn of phrase throughout and has a great ear for witty dialogue... An engaging and rewarding read' * Irish Mail on Sunday *
'Her writing, laced with an innate and very natural sense of humour, catches the smallest nuances of human behaviour and speaks straight to the heart' * Irish World *

ISBN: 9780755326389

Dimensions: 196mm x 128mm x 25mm

Weight: 262g

384 pages