The Ladies' Midnight Swimming Club

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She gained an Honours Degree in English Literature and Psychology from Dublin City University and a Postgraduate Degree from University College, Galway. DISCLOSURE: Thank you to Aria and Aries for providing a digital ARC of The Ladies Midnight Swimming Club by Faith Hogan for review. To be honest, I think we were all a little in awe of your extensive vocabulary when it came to telling her where to go.

Jo, a close friend of Elizabeth’s, persuades her divorced daughter and coincidentally a doctor to takeover the surgery until Elizabeth can move forward. Jo is a lover of sea swimming, a brave thing to do in Ireland, and even more unusually, she likes to swim at night.Throughout the story it is the friendships and support characters give to each other that make it a beautiful, heartwarming read that I have no hesitation in highly recommending.

I found this book very predictable in places; I’d guessed all that was to happen next in the story so none of it came a great surprise.Dan has worked in the TV business but now, with an unexpected and forced time-out, he decides to re-evaluate his life.

With a rambling old house, and a GP practice without a GP, Elizabeth has life-changing decisions to make as she embraces the next stage in her life. She manages to draw her friend into trying it, and during this intimacy Elizabeth reveals her problem. Jo is a prominent part of the community in Ballycove with a stunning, cosy cottage looking out over the bay where Elizabeth feels more at home than when she's within the four walls of her own house. So I was pretty surprised how quickly I finished this one, and for such a short book, it was exactly right. And they all began to laugh at the notion of Eric’s former receptionist pulling off her interlocking knickers before diving into the cold Atlantic.

It doesn’t take long for her to figure out that a move back to her rural seaside hometown town might be just the thing for her. Even the doors creaked onerously as they were opened; it seemed they too were ready to hand notice in. They went from being insecure and scared about what the future held to being ready and able to confront whatever life threw at them next.