What Becomes Of The Broken Hearted by Claire Allan

“What Becomes of The Broken Hearted” is the sixth book by Northern Ireland author, Claire Allan.

Kitty Shanahan. proprietor of The Dressing Room, is very much in love with love but with one simple routine phone call, her perfect life is turned on its head. It’s not easy to help hopeful brides choose their dream dress for their big day when you own heart is in pieces. And it’s hard to know who you can trust when the man you trusted most of all in life suddenly disappears.

Journalist Erin Brannigan knows exactly where the love of her life is. Paddy her fiancé who is battling cancer suddenly turns into Groomzilla planning their forthcoming wedding to the very last detail. When Erin is challenged by her bosses to write about her wedding, Paddy’s cancer and the man who first broke her heart, Erin finds herself caught up in a whirlwind which spins her life far out of control.

Thrown together in the dressing room of the bridal shop, Kitty and Erin find themselves caught up in each other’s lives and wondering if broken hearts can ever be mended.

I have read all of Claire Allan books and to be honest, I felt “What Becomes of The Broken Hearted” has to be her at her very best. From the start I thought it was an riveting book that I seemed unable to put down.

Told as a dual narrative through the eyes of kitty and Erin, it was fascinating to see them both at the most troubled stages of their lives and although they were strangers provided unlikely shoulders for each other to lean on. I found the characters to be genuine interesting people that I actually began to care about them and pray that they would find their happy ever after.

I like that from the very start, Claire introduced us to the problem, with the simple introductory line “The bomb dropped at 4.17p.m. on a Thursday” this line was so powerful and captivating, that immediately I was hooked! This power remained throughout the story, as both Erin and Kitty tackled the problems that had held them back such as insecurity, heartache and illness.

As the story is set in Northern Ireland, I liked the snippets of scenery, culture and colloquialism that I discovered that I often said myself which occasionally made me smile in the regular banter of the sisters and friends of both Kitty and Erin.

“What Becomes of The Broken Hearted” is a wonderfully written and heartfelt story of discovering love, recovering from heartbreak and is definately Claire Allan at her best.

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