Always You By Erin Kaye

[amazon_link id=”1847562035″ target=”_blank” ][/amazon_link]’Always You’ is the latest book by Northern Ireland author, Erin Kaye.

At university it all seemed so simple; Sarah and Cahal would conquer the world. Nothing could separate them. But Cahal was born from the wrong side of the tracks and when family pressures mounted, they weren’t as brave as they hoped to be. Fast forward twenty years and Sarah and Cahal lead very different lives to each other. But a chance meeting brings them together again. Can they do things differently this time?

‘Always You’ is the second book that I have read by Erin Kaye in recent months and I thought it was refreshing and compelling story. Set against the backdrop of Northern Ireland, Cahal and Sarah are the star crossed lovers, that promised to be together forever but life didn’t work out as they intended. Both set up their lives on other sides of the world, having married other people, they realise that in a chance meeting that their hearts still belong to each other.

The story is seen through the eyes of the main characters, Cahal and Sarah and this makes for interesting reading as they both thought that they had left each other behind, but through a series of meet ups they see that it is not the case. Set in the past when the lovers first got together at university, the story is seen through a series of flashbacks and the present. Right from the offset, it seemed that everyone is against the young lovers, but as the story develops, we discover that their relationship is not as straight forward as they thought. Sarah comes from a strict religious Protestant background where her dad is a senior police officer, and Cahal’s family are not as highly regarded, living off benefits and crimes, they have a bad reputation. Throughout the story there is a sense of unease and tension, as the couple try to overcome their past. One of the things that I enjoyed most about the story, was purely a simple thing, as the story in set in Northern Ireland, where I am from, I felt very much included in the story, with the vivid descriptions and mentions of landmarks, I almost felt like I was part of the cast. Filled with local sayings and sayings, I found myself giggling at how we speak at times.

Erin is a lovely writer and as the story is of quite sad nature and shocking in parts, especially when a terrible secret is revealed, it flows along lovely and is very easy to get caught up in and suddenly you discover that your evening is away.

An absorbing story, that will most definitely pull at the heartstrings, a story of lost love, regret, Northern Ireland conflict and putting the past to right, ‘Always You’ is a wonderfully emotional and bittersweet story filled with twists and turns and the odd surprise or two, that will have you hooked from the start.

You can buy [amazon_link id=”1847562035″ target=”_blank” ]Always You on Amazon [/amazon_link] and is available to buy from good bookshops.