Book Synopsis:
How do you pick up the pieces when the person that held them together is gone?
When forty-year-old Rabbit Hayes dies, she leaves behind a family broken by grief. Her mother Molly is distraught and in danger of losing her faith. Her father Jack spends hour upon hour in the family attic, poring over his old diaries, losing himself in the past.
Rabbit’s brother Davey finds himself suddenly guardian to her twelve-year-old daughter Juliet. Juliet might be able to fill a hole in Davey’s heart – but how can he help Juliet through her grief when he can barely cope with his own?
But even though the Hayes family are all fighting their own battles, they are drawn together by their love for Rabbit, and their love for each other. In the years that follow her death they find new ways to celebrate and remember her, to find humour and hope in the face of tragedy, and to live life to its fullest, as Rabbit would have wanted.
From the bestselling author of The Last Days of Rabbit Hayes comes a huge-hearted novel about death, family and finding laughter in the most unexpected of places.Below a Big Blue Sky will make you laugh, cry and shout with joy.
Below A Big Blue Sky is available in hardback and ebook now. You can purchase your copy using the link below.
My Review:
I absolutely loved the prequel to this book and count it as one of my favourite books of all times. I was therefore very excited to read Below The Big Blue Sky and to spend some more time with the Hayes family.
This book follows on straight from the previous book with a highly emotional scene which helped emerse me straight back into the story. I have always loved spending time with the Hayes family and it was like being back with old friends again. Their big, crazy family made me feel like I was part of their world and helped provide some much needed comic relief at times.
The author handles a difficult and sensitive subject beautifully throughout this book. I liked how they were the impact grief can have was explored and how the reader could gain an understanding of what it could do to a person. I could fully emphasise with the characters who lost their faith due to it as I lost mine when my son died.
Overall I absolutely loved this book which manages to be heartbreaking and funny at the same time. I found myself crying one moment and then laughing the next. I can’t wait to read more from this author!
Huge thanks to Tracy Fenton for inviting me onto the blog tour and to Zaffre for my copy of this book via Netgalley.
About The Author:
Anna McPartlin is a novelist and scriptwriter from Dublin, who has written for TV serial dramas featured on BBC UK, RTE Ireland and A&E America. She has been writing adult fiction for over ten years, and also writes for children under the name Bannie McPartlin. She lives with her husband Donal and their four dogs.
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Fab review Jo xx
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