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The Meaning of Purple Tulips
"Faye Winters is a woman with a coloured past and a future fraught with tough decisions.
We meet her as the ‘love of her life’, Nathan [Nate] Locke, flings aside their 5 year relationship just as they begin to plan their wedding. Distraught she throws herself into a tirade of pointless relationships until she meets Brandon Donohue. Falling blindly in love again she sets herself up for fall after fall with this selfish American journalist. We’re left wondering if Faye will ever get what she wants as we discover a number of family secrets and her biggest during desire!"
We meet her as the ‘love of her life’, Nathan [Nate] Locke, flings aside their 5 year relationship just as they begin to plan their wedding. Distraught she throws herself into a tirade of pointless relationships until she meets Brandon Donohue. Falling blindly in love again she sets herself up for fall after fall with this selfish American journalist. We’re left wondering if Faye will ever get what she wants as we discover a number of family secrets and her biggest during desire!"
- GenresChick Lit
272 pages, Kindle Edition
First published July 5, 2012
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About the author
Bláithín O' Reilly Murphy
4 books19 followersBláithín O’Reilly Murphy is the author of Distinctive Weddings; Tying the Knot without the Rope Burns and The Meaning of Purple Tulips. She retired from her award-winning wedding planning career in 2017 to start a family and is mum to two beautiful angel daughters in heaven and one personality-filled little dude!
She loves to write festive-filled romances that keep the readers on their toes featuring female characters who haven’t yet realised their own strength. Her upcoming short story ‘Sealed with a Christmas Kiss’ [part of the newly published Christmas Anthology - More Than Mistletoe], is the enticing prequel to her festive novel ‘It Started with a Gift’ [out 2022] which was shortlisted for the Penguin Christmas Love Story Publication Competition in 2021. She is obsessed with Hallmark Christmas Movies and Korean Dramas which she says gives her writing an emotional edge!
Bláithín is never far from a toasted scone or glass of Prosecco and she tries her best not to kill her plants in her spare time. She lives near the Irish coast with her darling husband, adorable son, and 4 cute furbabies. Her great ambition for later life is to be the crazy cat lady living on the corner of your street that everyone secretly loves and to own a bookstore, where everyone gathers for readings, and signings, and socialising; and hopefully buys a book or twenty. She can be found oversharing in her IG stories and trying to sound witty and relevant on Twitter as @WhatBlaDidNext
She loves to write festive-filled romances that keep the readers on their toes featuring female characters who haven’t yet realised their own strength. Her upcoming short story ‘Sealed with a Christmas Kiss’ [part of the newly published Christmas Anthology - More Than Mistletoe], is the enticing prequel to her festive novel ‘It Started with a Gift’ [out 2022] which was shortlisted for the Penguin Christmas Love Story Publication Competition in 2021. She is obsessed with Hallmark Christmas Movies and Korean Dramas which she says gives her writing an emotional edge!
Bláithín is never far from a toasted scone or glass of Prosecco and she tries her best not to kill her plants in her spare time. She lives near the Irish coast with her darling husband, adorable son, and 4 cute furbabies. Her great ambition for later life is to be the crazy cat lady living on the corner of your street that everyone secretly loves and to own a bookstore, where everyone gathers for readings, and signings, and socialising; and hopefully buys a book or twenty. She can be found oversharing in her IG stories and trying to sound witty and relevant on Twitter as @WhatBlaDidNext
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August 1, 2012
Bestseller Material... July 31, 2012
By N.S.K.
Before you read The Meaning of Purple Tulips you could be fooled into thinking that this story is "just" a romance; something breezy to read over the summer which does not provoke much thought... and while this book is certainly something to read this summer it is far from a breezy sketch of a storyline that gets you through your lazing by the pool. This book is a stay up all night page-turner! You are immediately sucked in to O'Reilly-Murphy's female protagonist's life and by the time you realize that this fabulously written book is full of ingenious plot turns and is more than just a typical romance but encompasses the nature of love, family and the ideals of marriage you are unable to stop until you find out what happens in the end, and to O'Reilly-Murphy's credit you would be hard pressed to predict it! This is a book that should be on a bestseller list.
By N.S.K.
Before you read The Meaning of Purple Tulips you could be fooled into thinking that this story is "just" a romance; something breezy to read over the summer which does not provoke much thought... and while this book is certainly something to read this summer it is far from a breezy sketch of a storyline that gets you through your lazing by the pool. This book is a stay up all night page-turner! You are immediately sucked in to O'Reilly-Murphy's female protagonist's life and by the time you realize that this fabulously written book is full of ingenious plot turns and is more than just a typical romance but encompasses the nature of love, family and the ideals of marriage you are unable to stop until you find out what happens in the end, and to O'Reilly-Murphy's credit you would be hard pressed to predict it! This is a book that should be on a bestseller list.
October 20, 2012
I liked how the book has short chapters. The author took the time to title each chapter as well. I was able to read a couple of chapters each night.
The reader gets to experience the main character's growth in maturity and improved decision making. I'm guessing the book is fairly autobiographical. With the first person narration it reads like a letter to friend or a diary entry.
At first I thought the book would appeal to fans of Sex in the City, but as I read on, I began to believe that soap opera fans will appreciate the plot twists.
The reader gets to experience the main character's growth in maturity and improved decision making. I'm guessing the book is fairly autobiographical. With the first person narration it reads like a letter to friend or a diary entry.
At first I thought the book would appeal to fans of Sex in the City, but as I read on, I began to believe that soap opera fans will appreciate the plot twists.
April 22, 2013
Easy read with a few twists, only took a few hours to get through
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