Some of This Is True, Michelle McDonagh
Some of This Is True, Michelle McDonagh
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Some of This Is True

Author: Michelle McDonagh

Narrator: Michele Moran

Unabridged: 10 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/05/2025

Synopsis

'Gripping, smart, suspenseful' EDEL COFFEY

'I could not put the book down' AMY JORDAN

In a village of secrets, is anyone truly innocent?

'A page-turner' IRISH INDEPENDENT

On a frosty morning, a young tourist is found dead at the bottom of the Wishing Steps at Blarney Castle. A tragic fall, the locals say. But when Dani DeMarco arrives from America to identify her daughter Jessie's body, she's convinced the truth is more sinister.

Jessie had travelled to the village to find the father she never knew, a man who's now a pillar of the local community. But the story of his past, which Dani quickly exposes, soon ignites a storm of outrage, denial and fear.

The local community begins to take sides, but who to believe - the man they have known all their lives, or a devastated mother with nothing to lose? As loyalties shift and tensions rise, one question haunts them all: did Jessie slip ... or was she silenced?

'A thrilling mystery' GILL PERDUE

About Michelle McDonagh

Michelle McDonagh is an Irish journalist with over twenty-five years' experience, including twelve years as a staff reporter at the Connacht Tribune. She now works freelance, writing features and health pieces for numerous Irish papers, including The Irish Times.She is married with three children and lives in Cork. She is the author of three novels: There's Something I Have to Tell You, Somebody Knows and Some of This is True.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Georgina on May 24, 2025

Some of This Is True starts with a bang—literally—at the Wishing Steps in Blarney Castle, and from there, you’re drawn into a story full of quiet tension, half-truths, and questions no one seems eager to answer. On the surface, it’s straightforward: a young American, Jessie, is found dead, and the Gu......more

Goodreads review by Mairead on May 28, 2025

My Rating ~ 3.5* Some of This is True by Michelle McDonagh publishes June 5th with Hachette Ireland and is described as 'a gripping, twist-filled story of secrets, deception and suspicion.' Set in the village of Blarney in Co. Cork Some of This is True is a story about broken families, duplicity, guil......more

Goodreads review by MizzyRed on June 04, 2025

This book does a great job of creating the tension of what might happen in a smaller town, if a girl looking for her father ends up mysteriously dead and how it all blows up when the mother comes and then accuses a man of murdering the girl because he is the father or so she claims. Dani is a mother......more

Goodreads review by Farah G on May 30, 2025

This is the third book I have read by Michelle McDonough and she is one the most gifted writers I have come across from Ireland - which is saying a lot, given the rich Irish literary traditions she and her contemporaries are taking forward. When a young American girl arrives in a small Irish village......more

Goodreads review by Gordon on May 16, 2025

Some Of This Is True is a clever and well written novel. More suspense than thriller, it is character driven and, as the title suggests, involves a fair amount of duplicity in its plot. The novel begins with the discovery of a body in the grounds of Blarney Castle. A young woman has apparently fallen......more

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When a young American woman in search of her roots dies in what might or might not be an accident, a spiral of closely guarded village secrets starts to unravel. Skilfully observed, Some of This is True is both a perceptive dissection of small town Ireland in 2025 and an engrossing mystery with convincing and complex characters. McDonagh's many fans are in for another treat. Catherine Kirwan

In her third novel, Michelle McDonagh plunges us headfirst into a compelling intergenerational domestic noir where the dark secrets of the past continue to play havoc with the emotional and psychological health of her present day cast of memorable characters.

In a thrilling mystery which crosses time zones and oceans, our guide is a damaged, tragic antiheroine whom we have no option but to follow on her quest for truth - a journey which confronts the worst aspects of humanity without ever losing sight of the best - namely love, compassion and hope Gill Perdue

I raced through this novel, immersed in the different points of view. The plot unfolded with a sense of deep tension, reeling me in until I absolutely could not stop reading. It was very clever, weaving such topical world issues into a thriller, and I could not put the book down Amy Jordan

Michelle McDonagh just gets better and better. Blackly funny and acutely observant, she digs behind the veneer of suburban Irish society to reveal the darkness that can find its way into any ordinary life. An insightful portrayal of Irish communities and the secrets they keep, with characters you will love. I couldn't stop turning the pages. I love how she unpicks families and marriages until nothing is as it seems. Gripping, smart and suspenseful, this is a compelling story that packs a big punch. Edel Coffey

A page-turner for the sunbed this summer Irish Independent

Grippingly authentic ... Some of This Is True is domestic noir at its most beguilingly chilling Irish Times

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