Is This Love

by Martina Reilly

Pamela and Maggie, two sisters with very different takes on life, find themselves thrown together for the first time since their father died. Maggie has just returned home after leaving her English boyfriend. She has a secret and no idea where her future lies. All she knows is that she needs to find a job and quick, before her mother starts asking awkward questions. But Maggie soon finds out that there aren't too many jobs going in top restaurants in Dublin city. Pamela has her life sorted. She's married to Dick whose needs are simple - a clean house, quiet children and a wife that does exactly what she's told. Two sisters, once close, are forced to question everything they thought they knew and ask - Is This Love?

Paperback

First published December 25, 2014

About the author

Hi. It’s Martina Reilly here, the artist formally known as Tina Reilly! And before that, I was teen writer, Martina Murphy.

Reviews

[Natasha · Rating 2 out of 5]

2.5, got better toward the end.

[Ochoniya Aduku · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lovely book...so Lovely enjoyed every bit of it🥰

[Caroline Roddy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Two sisters with completely different lives.
Maggie has left her restaurant manager job in London, her boyfriend and has come home to Ireland to stay with her Mam.
Pamela her sister, the housewife with three kids and a control freak husband.

Their mother only cares what the neighbours think, agrees with everything Dick, Pamela's husband says and panders to her Mr P's every whim where most women would have kicked him to touch a long time ago.


I liked this book but I really could not entertain the characters of Pamela and her mother. Pamela seemed to be going around with blinkers for a long time with regards to her control freak, domineering, bully of a husband and her mother is a pathetic woman who believes a man is necessary in any womans life despite what type of man he is.

I really like Maggie but it's obvious from the first few pages where her story is going, she brings humour to the book especially in her dealings with Louis, josie and lucinda in the cafe she ends up managing.

The story is predictable but it is a good holiday read.