About The Book
Amanda King and Tess Cuffe are strangers who share the same Georgian house, but their lives couldn’t be more different. Amanda seems to have it all, absolute perfection.
She
projects all the accouterments of a lady who lunches. Sadly, the reality is a
soulless home, an unfaithful husband and a very lonely heart.
By
comparison, in the basement flat, unwanted tenant Tess has spent a lifetime
hiding and shutting her heart to love.
It
takes a bossy doctor, a handsome gardener, a pushy teenager and an abandoned
cat to show these two women that sometimes letting go is the first step to
moving forward and new friendships can come from the most unlikely situations.
My Review:
The Girl I Used to Know is a beautiful, inspiring story of
self-discovery, knowing your own worth and having a second go at life.
A story of friendships, this book shows us how people are
always worth taking a chance on, looking past the exterior and trying to
understand the person someone truly is or wants to be. I love how the emphasis
was put on friendships and in supporting others – taking two main characters
who were both alone, but in very different ways and making them so powerfully
connected.
I enjoyed the plot of the book, the ways their lives are so
very different, yet they are so closely entwined. Such meaningful and powerful
writing by Faith Hogan, it is a well-paced book with short, fast chapters that
will allow you to get fully immersed into the two ladies’ lives. I loved that
we had chapters that took us back in time and we get to see what happened in Tess’s
early life, I think this adds so much to the story and gave us such compassion
for the character.
At the beginning of the book neither of our main characters
are that appealing, I doubt many people found them charming or even likable but as I read through their story, I grew to be very fond of them both. This
book is a real emotional journey and full of surprises. Both Amanda and Tess
have some real low blows within their lives, things that turn everything they
think they know on its head, but this is countered by some fantastic highs and
moments of pure happiness for both.
It’s a gorgeous book to curl up and enjoy, I cannot
recommend it enough as it is very uplifting and motivating. I am very
grateful to Aria Fiction and Faith Hogan for the opportunity to read and
review - Thank you!
Purchase links:
Amazon:
https://amzn.to/2JF2sLJ
Kobo:
http://bit.ly/2W78zzb
Google
Play: http://bit.ly/2Wo4qWD
About the Author:
Faith
lives in the west of Ireland with her husband, four children and two very fussy
cats. She has an Hons Degree in English Literature and Psychology, has worked
as a fashion model and in the intellectual disability and mental health sector.
Twitter: @GerHogan
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