The Irish Lake House: An absolutely gorgeous and heart-warming romance

by Colleen Coleman

Clutching the faded postcard tightly in her hand, Daisy looks around the sun-soaked Irish village. So this is the place her mother ran away from all those years ago... What secrets did she leave hidden here for Daisy to find? Daisy Clarke is searching for a new beginning. So when she inherits a lake house on the stunning west coast of Ireland that was mysteriously left to her late mother Rose , she wonders if this could be the fresh start she's been looking for. Daisy has never visited the tiny village of Innisfree , with its rolling green hills and cobbled streets, but she remembers how her mother's eyes would fill with tears whenever it was mentioned. Because when she was pregnant, Rose ran away from this magical place in the middle of the night with a heart-breaking secret she never shared... Arriving in Ireland, Daisy meets James , the handsome lawyer handling her inheritance. With his warm Irish charm, gorgeous sense of humour, and sparkling sapphire blue eyes, he soon makes her heart flip whenever she sees him. And when he offers to renovate the lake house and help her uncover her family history, Daisy begins to wonder if she can open her heart once more. But when Daisy discovers the shocking truth behind her inheritance and her true family, it changes everything... When the dust settles, will she be able to build a future with James? Or will the secrets of her mother's past destroy her hopes of a future in the beautiful Irish village she has grown to love? An absolutely gorgeous, uplifting and heart-warming romance about new beginnings, second chances and finding love. Perfect for fans of Debbie Macomber, Cate Woods and Susanne O'Leary. Praise for Colleen ' Ohhhhhhhhhhh this author doesn't disappoint ... I was able to lose myself in every word ... Everything I could want from a book and more , deserving a rating of the entire amount of stars in the universe . Truly - five ain't gonna cut it at all, this book is pint-sized perfection .' The Writing Garnet ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

306 pages, Paperback

Published November 8, 2023

About the author

Colleen Coleman is an Irish- Canadian novelist. She is the winner of the much-coveted Novelicious Undiscovered People’s Choice Award which launched to find the next ‘chick-lit star’. She spent over ten years working as a teacher of English and Philosophy before finally taking a deep breath, scrunching her eyes shut, putting her pen to paper and vowing not to lift it again until she wrote the words The End. As a result, her first novel was born. Colleen lives between London, Ireland and Cyprus with her very patient husband and very chatty twin daughters. Don't Stop Me Now is her first book and will be released in February.

About Don't Stop Me Now....I sat beside a girl on an aeroplane, we started chatting and over five hours we emptied the Easyjet mini-bar of JD and coke, ate our baggage allowance in crisps and by the time we landed, tipsy and yet still ravenous, we knew each others’ life stories. She was super-bright, kind, funny, beautiful - but what really struck me was that she was a psychologist yet her own head was all over the place! She seemed to have a blindspot when it came to her own ‘issues’ and I found this apparent paradox fascinating.

As I hugged her goodbye at the arrivals lounge, I just knew I’d met someone very special and I had the first chapter of DSMN scribbled down by the time I went to bed that night.

Reviews

[Lisbeth Zabihi · Rating 4 out of 5]

Hyggelige læsning til en trist og grå vinterdag. Tag med en tur til Irland, hvor en lille landsby midt i den smukke natur, naturligvis bringer lys og glæde på sådan en grå dag.

Romanen handler om at finde sine rødder. Daisy bor i London og har ikke noget familie. Hendes mor døde da hun var barn og hun har aldrig kendt sin far. Da Daisy får besked på, at hun har arvet et hus i Irland, er hun meget forbavset. Hun kender ikke noget til den person der har efterladt huset - ikke til hende, men til hendes mor. Men da moren er død, står hun nu med arven. Daisy tager til Irland, for at sætte huset i stand og efterfølgende sælge det. Hendes kæreste er fuldstændig forgabt i køb af en dyr lejlighed, som de vil kunne få råd til, hvis Daisy sælger ejendommen. Han er totalt ligeglad med, hvad betydning landsbyen og huset har for Daisy.

Daisy står på en skillevej. Skal hun gøre som kæresten forventer, eller skal hun følge sit hjerte?

Det er en ok roman, der passer godt til det lidt triste vintervejr. Man skal ikke læse romanen, hvis man er på jagt efter de store udfordringer og store læseoplevelser. Den er tryg og hyggelig.

[Beth · Rating 1 out of 5]

What a disappointment. The beginning and end were fine and the plot was decent. But much of the narration used trite says and generalizations throughout. At times it felt like some of the sentence were AI generated. “As I stroll along the mantelpiece” huh?
Maybe it was poor editing, but I believe Coleman has better descriptors than “wild flowers”.

[Michele Russo · Rating 5 out of 5]

I truly enjoyed all the seconds I have read this book! To me it whimsical, mysterious, & really well written!