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Inside Out
On the outside Meg Enright is a wife, mother and successful business woman. But looking inside the life of Meg there are shocking revelations.
The real Meg suffers the coldness of her marriage, the defiance of her adolescent son and the mysterious disappearance of her daughter while on a summer trip to the States. When daughter Carrie eventually arrives home, she seems to have undergone a personality change. She announces to the family that she has joined Inner Light Movement (ILM), a quasi-religious cult founded by Matt Hemmings in the States.
Can Meg save her marriage? Does she want to? Will she be able to free her daughter from ILM influence, and will she manage to prevent her son from sliding into a life of crime?
Fighting betrayal, disillusionment and at times, fear, can Meg Enright find the strength to become the person she had always hoped to be?
The real Meg suffers the coldness of her marriage, the defiance of her adolescent son and the mysterious disappearance of her daughter while on a summer trip to the States. When daughter Carrie eventually arrives home, she seems to have undergone a personality change. She announces to the family that she has joined Inner Light Movement (ILM), a quasi-religious cult founded by Matt Hemmings in the States.
Can Meg save her marriage? Does she want to? Will she be able to free her daughter from ILM influence, and will she manage to prevent her son from sliding into a life of crime?
Fighting betrayal, disillusionment and at times, fear, can Meg Enright find the strength to become the person she had always hoped to be?
380 pages, Paperback
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September 1, 2020
I thought this was very well written, but I was disappointed that John and Meg didn’t stay together In the end...they’d finally gotten to the point where they were communicating and John was going to be working less after selling his company shares..I though it was a shame they didn’t make it, as they’d gotten a lot of the negatives stuff/feelings out of the way finally..and John should’ve picked some one other than Meg’s best friend for his HAE..then again he was kind of a bastard throughout the story so why stop there? overall a very good book and I’m wondering why not more people on here have read it.
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October 8, 2011
For the past twenty years Meg Enright has been married to John the couple met when Meg was on a night out with her best friend Lynn Rooney and the three have remained close friends ever since.
John and Meg now have two children who are now almost grown up and fully independent. Meg and Lynn are running a successful business together and John is running a storage company. John lives and breathes for his job, his whole life now revolves around his work and he is spending less and less time with his family.
When Carrie, Meg and John’s daughter seems to be missing while on a trip abroad and Meg becomes concerned about her daughter’s well being, she finds that she does not get the support she needs from John. Not knowing that John had got his own concerns due to the fact that the receptionist at the company that John is running Francine Keyes has accused John of sexual harassment and is now blackmailing John for her silence. So Meg turns to her oldest friend Lynn for help. But Lynn’s got things on her mind she has been keeping a secret for almost half her life, she is in love with a man and living with the pain of knowing that her love will never be returned and must remain a secret.
Can Meg find the strength to cope when the truth begins to unravel without the people she thought she could count on in difficult times?
For those of you that read my blog (http://goo.gl/eSHvf) regularly you will be probably be able to tell by now that I am a big fan of Mary O’Sullivan books. Inside Out is the fifth book I have read by this brilliant author and I can tell you that Mary O’Sullivan books do not disappoint each book is just as good as the last. All Mary’s books are completely different stories about peoples lives. Told by a fantastic storyteller that really makes you feel for the characters that she really brings to life. Each page of her words drawing you into the characters world that you almost feel you can reach out and touch them.
John and Meg now have two children who are now almost grown up and fully independent. Meg and Lynn are running a successful business together and John is running a storage company. John lives and breathes for his job, his whole life now revolves around his work and he is spending less and less time with his family.
When Carrie, Meg and John’s daughter seems to be missing while on a trip abroad and Meg becomes concerned about her daughter’s well being, she finds that she does not get the support she needs from John. Not knowing that John had got his own concerns due to the fact that the receptionist at the company that John is running Francine Keyes has accused John of sexual harassment and is now blackmailing John for her silence. So Meg turns to her oldest friend Lynn for help. But Lynn’s got things on her mind she has been keeping a secret for almost half her life, she is in love with a man and living with the pain of knowing that her love will never be returned and must remain a secret.
Can Meg find the strength to cope when the truth begins to unravel without the people she thought she could count on in difficult times?
For those of you that read my blog (http://goo.gl/eSHvf) regularly you will be probably be able to tell by now that I am a big fan of Mary O’Sullivan books. Inside Out is the fifth book I have read by this brilliant author and I can tell you that Mary O’Sullivan books do not disappoint each book is just as good as the last. All Mary’s books are completely different stories about peoples lives. Told by a fantastic storyteller that really makes you feel for the characters that she really brings to life. Each page of her words drawing you into the characters world that you almost feel you can reach out and touch them.
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