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Can we ever put right our past mistakes?

Jun 12, 2017
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On her website, author Sheila O’Flanagah states:

“When I’m writing a book I want to do three things:

  • Tell a good story
  • Make the reader feel like they know the characters
  • Make each book better than the last”

“I didn’t set out to write for any particular type of reader, but I suppose I must have had people like me in mind – people who have busy lives and who like to escape into someone else’s for a while.”

It seems through the reader’s eyes, this former financial trader achieves her goals as witnessed by her best sellers If You Were Me, My Mother’s Secret and The Missing Wife.

In her latest novel, What Happened That Night, she asks: Can we ever put right the mistakes we made in the past? 

One thing’s certain: nothing stays a secret for ever. 

Then: Lola is a young single woman with big dreams. When she catches the eye of wealthy jeweller Philip Warren, she can’t resist his charm and confidence. Could life get any better? Then everything changes. And Lola makes some decisions that will have long-term consequences she can’t begin to imagine.

Now: Bey’s flying to Dublin from beautiful Cordoba, Spain. A shocking tragedy means she will have to meet the Warren family, but she’s never come to terms with the terrible events of the night she spent in their home when she was twelve years old. Now she’s set to find out more about her childhood, and the difficult choices her mother made many years ago. It’s also time for Bey to make choices herself, about who she wants to be: a woman defined by the mistakes of the past, or someone brave enough to risk everything for the future she’s always wanted.

What Happened That Night by Sheila O’Flanagan (published by Hachette Australia) is available now from Dymocks. Click here to learn more.

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