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‘Beautiful and uplifting…Written with such heart it warms the soul’ – Claudia Carroll, bestselling author of ‘Meet Me in Manhattan’
‘A compelling, magical, festive cracker of a book’ – Alexandra Brown, bestselling author of ‘The Great Village Show’
An angel gets its wings…
Belle has taken all the Christmas decorations down. This year they won’t be celebrating.
As foster parents, Belle and Jim have given many children the chance of a happier start in life. They’ve loved them as if they were their own. They shouldn’t have favourites but little Lauren has touched their hearts. And now her mother is well enough to take her back and Belle can’t bear the loss.
Hence, Christmas is cancelled.
So when Jim crashes his car one icy December night, after an argument about Lauren, Belle can only blame herself. Everything she loves is lost. And Belle finds herself standing on The Ha’Penny Bridge wishing she had never been born.
But what happens to a Christmas wish when an angel is listening…
Will Belle realise, before it’s too late, that her life is the most wonderful life of all?
Inspired by the timeless tale of beloved Christmas movie, It’s a Wonderful Life, Carmel Harrington’s next book tells the story of Belle, a young woman and foster carer from Dublin who faces the hardest decision of her life this Christmas on The Ha’Penny Bridge.
Full of Irish charm, magic, and the warmth of the festive season this is an emotional, heartwarming story that will stay with you long after you’ve reached ‘The End’. Perfect for fans of Cecelia Ahern & Jojo Moyes.
Carmel is the bestselling author of The Life You Left & Beyond Grace’s Rainbow, voted Romantic eBook of the Year 2013.
- Sales Rank: #416358 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-10-15
- Released on: 2015-10-15
- Format: Kindle eBook
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Praise for The Life You Left:
‘Engaging from the first page, at times emotional, at others thoughtful, The Life You Left will make you see life in a different way.’ – Women’s Way
‘Heartwrenching and heartwarming’ – The Evening Herald
“Guaranteed to brighten your day – once you have dried your tears!” – Novelicious
‘Carmel Harrington has done it again! Brilliantly written and as a second novel for this author, it surpasses all expectations.’ -Chicklit Club
‘Not only proves what an amazing book this is, but what a discovery Carmel Harrington is to the literary world.’ – BookGeekWearsPajams
‘A perfect summer read, grab the sun hat, a glass of wine, get out into the garden and enjoy!’ – BleachHouseLibrary
Praise for Carmel’s first book, Beyond Grace’s Rainbow:
‘It will pull you in, make you laugh and break your heart – in a good way!’ – USA Today Bestselling Author Abby Green
‘A bittersweet, quietly brilliant novel that will make you cry, laugh and cry all over again.’ – Female First
‘Funny, poignant and bursting with heartfelt humour.’ – I Heart… Chick Lit
‘You will laugh, you will cry, you might even get angry. One thing is for sure – this, thanks to the warmth of writing and the level of feeling Harrington obviously has for her characters, is a story you will never forget.’ – AfterTheFinalChapters.com
‘I can hand on my heart honestly say that this book has blown me away. Treat yourself to it. It's not just for us chick-lit ladies. It's for everyone who enjoys a good read and a brilliant book. It's Sensational.’ – PajamaBookGirl
About the Author
Carmel Harrington is a bestselling & award winning author from Co. Wexford, published with Harper Collins UK. She is also a panelist on TV3's Midday Show and writes feature articles for The Irish Independent & many other newspapers and magazines. A popular keynote speaker she has given talks in Ireland, UK & USA.
She lives with her husband Roger and two small children in Co. Wexford, Ireland, where she credits the rural idyll as a constant source of inspiration for her stories.
Her latest book, Every Time A Bell Rings is on sale now in bookshops throughout Ireland and UK and has been described by best-selling novelist Claudia Carroll as 'Beautiful and uplifting...Written with such heart it warms the soul.' Her other bestsellers include The Life You Left and Kindle Book of The Year & Romantic eBook of the Year, Beyond Grace's Rainbow. Her page-turning contemporary stories are to be published worldwide, translated into nine different languages and are regular chart-toppers.
Carmel writes realistic life stories with incredible compassion and warmth
about characters so authentic, they could be sitting in the room with you.
The Things I Should Have Told You, her fourth novel, will be published 30th June 2016.
Follow Carmel on Twitter @HappyMrsH, or become friends with Carmel on Facebook/happymrsh. For more information on Carmel, visit carmelharrington.com
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Beautiful
By Suze Lavender
When Belle, a foster child, is being placed with Tess she's finally found a good home. Soon another child, Jim, joins them. Jim and Belle are best friends. They're so close and they love each other very much. When Jim's mother is able to take care of her son again they lose touch. After many years Jim comes back to Dublin to find Belle. They immediately reconnect and their love is deeper than ever.
Jim and Belle want to be foster parents themselves. Their door is always open for children who need them. When Belle has to say goodbye to a child she really loves she's going through a tough time. It's almost Christmas, but she isn't in the mood to celebrate. When she wishes she'd never been born something happens to her, something that will change her entire outlook on life...
Every Time a Bell Rings is beautiful in so many ways. Tess, Jim and Belle are wonderful people and they have such good hearts. I truly admire every loving and caring foster parent. I think it's fantastic that Carmel Harrington has chosen this as a topic for her book. It's definitely a topic that deserves some extra attention.
I love romantic stories, especially when true love is involved. This Christmas story is so special. I didn't want it to end and loved every word. Every Time a Bell Rings has a gorgeous cover. Both the outside and the inside of the book are filled with love and joy. It's exactly what a good Christmas book should be like. It has the right spirit and I really enjoyed the story. I was singing Christmas songs and I'm already in a Christmas mood just because of this book. I think Carmel Harrington is a great writer and I love her work.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
A Warm, Witty Holiday Read. Recommended!
By LoveBooks212
My first Christmas read of 2015 is Carmel Harrington's EVERY TIME A BELL RINGS. I was eager to read this book after having loved BEYOND GRACE'S RAINBOW and THIS LIFE YOU LEFT. On top of that, this novel is an homage to the film "It's a Wonderful Life," and I, like so many people, found the questions raised by that classic to be life-changers. Harrington skillfully borrows the envelope from the movie, while adding both a modern-day perspective and a woman's point of view.
I will admit that I had a bit of trepidation regarding the sometimes dark threads of the story. Since I've had kids, and experienced the loss of my mother, I'm not as tough as I used to be. I no longer read "children in peril" novels such as the ones I read when I was an English major. I assumed based on the film, that the end would be happy, and that ultimately the story would be uplifting. I don't think it's a spoiler to say that I was correct.
The story centers on Belle, a tossed-around, often-forgotten, bi-racial child of the foster care system whose longest-term relationships include a mother who never wanted to see her born, and a cold, clinical social worker named Mrs. O'Reilly. She trusts no one but the one constant in her life, her beloved doll Dee Dee. When we meet the young Belle, she has stopped speaking altogether. This is understandable as she is not used to "having a voice." She has never been allowed to make choices or have opinions, and saying what she thinks has never gotten her anywhere good.
Enter Tess, a veteran foster mother who understands broken children, but sees past the shards to their humanity. She allows Belle the space she needs, and offers her a safe haven. She intuits that what Belle needs, in addition to a real loving mother, is a friend who is made of flesh and blood, not plastic. She takes in Jim, a foster kid who faces the pain of his mother's mental illness. She loves him, but is incapable of caring for him, so Tess steps in to bridge the gap.
The three form a bond of family that is as strong as blood, and find comfort in one another. When Jim has to rejoin his birth mother, Belle tries hard to be happy for him, but it's another loss for which she doesn't have the strength. She and Tess manage to get through the pain, and Belle makes it to adulthood, buoyed up by her foster mother's (real mother's. actually, despite the accident of birth) wisdom, kindness, and practicality. I love the scenes between Belle and Tess when the roles reverse. Belle constantly tries to convince Tess to give up her sneaky cigarettes and eat a green vegetable or two instead of the fried food and chocolates she lives on. I love the fact that Tess is three-dimensional, and not a cookie-cutter saint. Her flaws add rich depth to her character.
Belle winds up married and happy with foster children of her own. She loves them all, but it's a girl with a doll who reminds her of herself who steals her heart completely. At the climax of the book, we relax, thinking that Belle finally has every piece of her dream in place: Money, Home, Husband, Children, Family, Pregnancy. When fate intervenes to challenge Belle, she is simply too tired to fight, and contemplates doing herself a harm by jumping off the very bridge in Dublin where she got engaged. (Wait till you read about her "ring.")
A little girl with qualities that Belle cannot fathom steps in to help Belle sift through the aspects of her life that she can't accept. She gets a supernatural lesson in the powers of goodness and love to triumph over pain, cruelty, and deprivation.
I'm writing this carefully to avoid spoilers, but I want to call out a particular character whom I loved named Bobby. A troubled older child,of the kind that don't always wind up with happy situations in foster care, is taken in by Belle and her husband. The boy turns into a man, and a good solid one at that, after being bolstered by the love of Belle and her husband under the guidance of "Grandma" Tess. I love how he turns out, because he's still a man of the streets, to an extent. While he has chosen light over dark, we can still see sly remnants of the tools he used as a survivor when he was a kid. I adore how multi-dimensional Bobby is.
I did cry many times while I read this book. And some scenes still haunt me. It's unimaginable that people can be cruel to children, but sadly, it's a part of many adults' experience. The compelling part of the story is to see how people can overcome their beginnings, and how little it can take to turn someone from the wrong path to the right.
The ending was perfect, and it was the HEA that my heart needed. When I shut down my Kindle, I lay in bed weeping on my pillow, but it was a good, clean kind of weeping. I had fully invested in Belle's tale, and I can move on knowing she's fine.
Extra stars for wit and humor, a great conversational tone, and a lovely portrait of Dublin. Recommended! (less)
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Everyone needs a Nora in their life now and again
By Cheryl M-M
I felt as if Tess was the backbone of the story, perhaps even more so than Belle. She is the person who forms and loves the adult Belle grows up to be. Through all the disappointment, neglect and heartbreak Belle always has Tess holding her up and pushing her forward.
It must be incredibly hard for both foster parents and foster children to say goodbye when the children return to their parents, especially when they have managed to form a bond. Not all foster parents do it for the right reasons, but those who really care can change the lives of children in dire need of support and love.
Harrington draws upon the plot of It's a Wonderful Life quite a bit. In a way it makes the story seem more nostalgic. In essence the moral of the story is to acknowledge how lucky we are and to be happy for what we have instead of wanting what we might never be able to have.
I think we are all guilty from time to time of not being able to understand that we may be luckier than we think. Belle is stuck in her obsession of Lauren. The bond has grown into something that could be viewed as detrimental for a foster child, who eventually has to return to their biological parents.
Someone needs to remind Belle or make her aware of what is really important. What her life would be like without certain people in her life, and if she hadn't been part of their lives either. Harrington has created a Christmas story that leaves the reader with plenty to think about.
I received a free copy of this book courtesy of NetGalley and HarperCollins UK.
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