Summer of Secrets / Second Chances

THE SUMMER OF SECRETS: Hope Gleeson wants to go travelling, to escape her boring London life and plan a happier future. But the unthinkable happens - the plane taking her to sunnier climes experiences technical problems and crash lands. Hope is one of only seventeen people to survive, saved from death by the man sitting next to her. Hope wakes up in hospital with her best friends Adam and Julie at her side. They are taking her home to Ireland, they tell her, to recuperate. But home is the last place Hope wants to go - she has too many secrets to hide ...SECOND CHANCES: Lizzie was only a teenager when her sister Megan drowned ten years ago. A local boy, Joe, was sentenced to life imprisonment for murder. Now Joe is back, released from prison on good behaviour, and he, too, wants to put the past to rest. Lizzie can't stop thinking about the pain he's caused her family but as she slowly gains his confidence, her own falters: Joe isn't quite what she expected. Can she find the strength to let old wounds heal?


Genre: Literary Fiction