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1 Comment / May 15, 2014

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Story Synopsis:

She goes back to Italy with a head full of memories and a heart filled with hope. Her return trip proves to be quite different, as she learns that what she most yearns for can be waiting in the place she least expects to find it.

Sneak peek of story:

‘You’re going back to the same place?’ her mother asked. ‘The ice-cream was wonderful,’ she replied. But she wasn’t going back for the ice-cream. 

'Don’t go home,’ he’d said, lifting her hand to press his lips to the inside of her wrist. ‘Stay here with me.’ But she couldn’t stay. She had a job and a mother who pretended not to need her and a house with fifteen years still left on the mortgage. And she had Patrick. ‘I’m going back to Italy,’ she told him. ‘In May, for two weeks.’

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Tell us about the location for your SUNLOUNGER short story? A small village south of the Amalfi Coast in Italy.

Have your books featured any destinations? PUTTING OUT THE STARS featured San Francisco. All my other books are set in Ireland.

If you could live anywhere in the world… Ireland, where I live, because there is quite simply no place like it. I’ve lived in many other places – Africa, USA, Canada, France, Spain, UK – and nowhere comes close.

Destination you’ve returned to the most times? The Canary Islands because I love a bit of winter sun and they’re the most accessible destination from the west of Ireland.

Favourite cuisine from around the world? Italian – adore it. Greek a close second.

Holiday cocktail? All of them! (But if I had to choose, Mojito.)

What was your best holiday romance? A gorgeous man from Guernsey; we met on a tree-planting holiday in Spain. Sadly, our romance didn’t last much longer than the holiday.

And the worst? A Bulgarian lifeguard. He followed me back to the UK – I knew as soon as he walked into the arrivals hall at Heathrow that I’d made a huge mistake. Nightmare.



Meaney, Roisin

Sunlounger Contributing Author

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Author Bio

Despite having lived in Africa, London, Canada and San Francisco, Roisin Meaney is Irish through and through. In 1977 she entered a competition on the back of a cereal box and won a car. In 2001 she entered a ‘write a bestseller’ competition and won a two book publishing deal.

Since then she’s had nine adult novels and two children’s books published, and she’s made the Irish top five fiction list three times (with one number one). Her books have been translated into several languages and two have been published in the US and Canada.

She currently lives with a cat in the west of Ireland. In her spare time tells stories to tiny tots in her local library, and she occasionally enjoys a Guinness. Roisin’s latest novel is called SOMETHING IN COMMON and AFTER THE WEDDING is out July 2014.