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Jean Grainger

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Born

in Cork, Ireland

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Historical Fiction, Romance

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Maeve Binchy, Jojo Moyes, Graham Norton, Sebastian Faulks

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Jean Grainger was born in Cork, Ireland. She has been a tour guide of her beloved home country, a teacher, a university lecturer and a playwright. She began writing fiction at the suggestion of her clients on tours, many of whom were sure all the stories she told them would make for a great book. Her first book, The Tour, has become a Number 1 bestseller on Amazon. It tells the story of a disparate group of American visitors to Ireland, who, along with their Irish tour guide have a life changing experience in the magical Emerald Isle.
Her second book, So Much Owed, is a family saga set during the Second World War. The story centres on the Buckley family of West Cork and how their lives are pulled in different directions as they become embro ...more

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Hello everyone, and apologies for my silence.
I normally write my newsletter a bit more frequently but life has been so busy of late sometimes it’s hard to find the time. Having had Covid too I find myself more tired than usual but I’m coming out of it now. I lost my sense of taste and smell and you would think a person would use that opportunity to just eat leafy green vegetables and healthy lean

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	The Star and the Shamrock (The Star and the Shamrock #1) 4.42 avg rating — 25,639 ratings — published 2019 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Tour 4.16 avg rating — 20,116 ratings — published 2013 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Emerald Horizon (The Star and the Shamrock #2) 4.55 avg rating — 13,963 ratings — published 2020 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	What Once Was True 4.28 avg rating — 14,049 ratings — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Last Port of Call 4.43 avg rating — 12,236 ratings — published 2021 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Hard Way Home (The Star and the Shamrock #3) 4.56 avg rating — 10,966 ratings — published 2021 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Return to Robinswood 4.49 avg rating — 10,019 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Existential Worries of Mags Munroe 4.41 avg rating — 9,572 ratings — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Trials and Tribulations 4.56 avg rating — 9,104 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Trouble With Secrets (The Kilteegan Bridge Story, #1) 4.42 avg rating — 8,414 ratings — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The ST✡R and the SHAMROCK (4 books)
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Robinswood (3 books)
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Queenstown (4 books)
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The Reappearance of Rachel Price

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“You’re a damaged and, in lots of ways, a broken man because you are a good soul who tried to do the right thing. But in a war, the lines of good and bad, right and wrong, are so blurred, it’s impossible to determine which is which.”
― Jean Grainger, Return to Robinswood

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“It wasn’t that people didn’t care – they did – but it was on a scale that seemed impossible to solve.”
― Jean Grainger, The Star and the Shamrock

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“What is your passion?’ Harp asked. ‘If you know what that is, then where you are geographically in the world would be irrelevant.”
― Jean Grainger, Last Port of Call

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