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Martina Reilly

    Martina Reilly is a writer with a multifaceted identity, exploring various facets of storytelling under different names throughout her career. Her journey from a teen writer to her current literary persona suggests a deep and evolving engagement with the craft of writing.

    Martina Reilly
    The Summer of Secrets
    The Proof
    The Wish List
    Even Better than the Real Thing?
    All I Want Is You, Wish upon a Star
    Things I Want You to Know
    • 2016

      Sash Donnelly has done her best to move on - from Applegate, the small town where nothing ever seems out of the ordinary, and from that night, fifteen years ago. Then it happens - the vicious murder that stuns Applegate's tight- knit community. And Sash receives a phone call from Marcus, her childhood sweetheart. He's facing a life behind bars and needs her to tell everyone the truth. Lana, Sash's sister, knows that something happened that night, something that changed Sash, but she has no idea what. And she has a secret too, one that could save Marcus's life. Someone just needs to ask her the right question.

      The Proof
    • 2014

      Things I Want You to Know

      • 368 pages
      • 13 hours of reading
      4.2(111)Add rating

      How do you pick up the pieces after the worst has happened? When Nick Deegan's wife, Kate, dies, leaving him with two small children to raise alone, he has no idea how he'll manage. But on the day of her funeral, he discovers a book Kate left for him, Things I Want You to Know. Her instructions for raising Emma and Liam without her give him comfort, but her other plans for him seem much more daunting... Five dates with five different women. Nick isn't sure his heart is in it...but as he tries to follow Kate's careful instructions, he slowly realises that it's not romance Kate wanted him to find, but something far more important. Will Nick find the courage to take a second chance?

      Things I Want You to Know
    • 2012

      Even Better than the Real Thing?

      • 352 pages
      • 13 hours of reading

      Eve Cole loves her small apartment in Dublin's city centre. It might come with the noisy Party People downstairs and Larry, the handsome and charming ex-con next door, but the floor-to-ceiling windows make it perfect for her job painting fake masterpieces: Renoirs, Picassos, and especially Van Goghs. And she's good at it. Maybe too good. When eleven million euro appears in her mother's bank account, it turns out that Eve's been unwittingly involved in one of the greatest art frauds in history. Now she has to figure out a plan to get her painting back and return the money, without implicating herself or her family. Enter neighbour Larry. Even though he's turned his back on his shady past, he's the only one who might be able to help her. Will Eve get her painting back? Or is Larry just another fake? Eve's also about to find out that in love, as well as art, the trick is knowing when it's the real deal.

      Even Better than the Real Thing?
    • 2009

      All I Want is You: Poppy Furlong has the dream life: gorgeous home, loving family, expensive car, gym membership. Then overnight she loses it all - her husband's business partner has disappeared with the company profits. As she attempts to rebuild her family, Poppy leaves Dublin for the suburbs. There she acquires a mother-in-law from hell, a father she hardly knows, a new job, a new friend, a better insight into parenting and a new life. Will it match up to the old one? Or might it just be better? Wish Upon a Star: When Lucy fell pregnant, her world was turned upside-down. While she loves her daughter Fáinne with all her heart, she didn't quite imagine her life would feel over at the age of twenty-eight. And now, Fáinne wants to get to know her father - only Lucy never told him that she was pregnant. So, against the advice of her best friends and her doom-laden mother, Lucy begins the search to trace the boy she has tried so hard to forget . . .

      All I Want Is You, Wish upon a Star
    • 2009

      Sometimes, to be a good adult you need to rediscover the child inside ...

      The Wish List
    • 2008

      The Summer of Secrets

      • 416 pages
      • 15 hours of reading
      3.9(400)Add rating

      The eighth wonderful novel from Martina Reilly, an author who is going from strength to strength on Little, Brown's commercial list.

      The Summer of Secrets
    • 2007

      Poppy Furlong has the dream life - a gorgeous home, a loving husband and a five-year-old son she adores. Then overnight she loses it all - her home, gym membership, expensive car, regular trips to the beauty salon - because her husband's business partner has disappeared with the company profits. As she attempts to rebuild her family, Poppy leaves Dublin for the suburbs. There she acquires a mother-in-law from hell, a father she hardly knows, a new job, a new friend, a better insight into parenting. It's a whole new life, but will it match up to the old one? Or might it just be better?

      All I Want Is You