Impossible Dream

A fan of the Ivy Rose books, I was excited for another series by author Gemma Jackson. I was immediately pleased with the first installment, Impossible Dreams. This story also placed in Dublin - this time just before the turn of the century (1900) - I was delighted at the first mention of The Lane a......more

Gemma Jackson What Ending?????? I loved this book!! It's one of those books where the characters grab you by the heart and pull you in. I could have kept reading about the lives of these people!! Instead, the last two pages blew me away. It ended so abruptly that I was shocked. I kept thinking there......more

My kind of book - historical fiction. Set in Dublin and featuring a wonderful main character who is a strong and determined woman saddled with all the wrongs against women of the time - her husband selected by her parents; an abusive husband who is now entitled to her money and who brings the five a......more

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I love the author’s Ivy Rose books, mainly because the heroine was such a strong character and even though she was ill used, she was still able to take control and improve her situation. There is a slight overlap between this book and the Ivy Rose stories, even though it is set a quarter of a century......more