About Us by Sinead Moriarty

 

Sinead Moriarty is back with her new novel About Us which I found myself completely hooked on and unable to put down. This author always manages to write from the heart and this book in particular many of us will relate to in all walks of life.

Three couples. One therapist's couch ...

Alice and Niall used to be lovers, best friends and parents, in that order. Now they're no longer on the same page or even reading from the same book.

Ann thought when she and Ken retired, it would be their second spring. Instead, it feels more like an icy winter.

Orla is falling in love with boyfriend Paul, but her complicated past makes her unsure if she can ever be intimate with anyone.

Three couples find themselves telling a stranger about the most private part of their lives - their hopes, their disappointments, their awkward realisations.

Can they learn to be honest with each other? And what life-changing decisions will be made when they do?

 

Each of our couples are from a different generation and point in their lives, but all have one key issue in common, the effect sex has on their relationships and also what the lack of intimacy can actually be hiding underneath. Now don’t read this and see the word sex and think this is going to be some cheap bonkbuster that will have you running in the other direction this runs more deeply than that and I am sure so many of us will relate to one character or another.

I love how the author has managed to bring awareness of issues that effect women out there and weaved this into a storyline full of emotion, insight and self care and I particularly think that Orla’s condition being spoken about is a great thing because so many people have never even heard of her condition which makes sufferers feel less of a woman.

I sympathised with all of our characters other than Niall who I just wanted to shake and make him grow up.

Ok here is my only negative……. Sinead ….. you can not leave then ending there! I actually looked to see if pages had been torn out from my cover and now I am left guessing!

This was a insightful and honest read that I loved and have already recommended to a couple of people, because I know they will enjoy it but it may also help them to not feel alone too.

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