The Pub Across The Pond by Mary Carter Blog Tour and My Review

Join Mary Carter, author of the women’s fiction novel, The Pub Across the Pond (Kensington), as she virtually tours the blogosphere September 20 – November 11, 2011, on her second virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book!

About Mary Carter

MARY CARTER is a freelance writer and novelist. The Pub Across the Pond is her fifth novel with Kensington. Her other works include:  My Sister’s Voice, Sunnyside Blues, She’ll Take It, andAccidentally Engaged.  In addition to her novels she has written two novellas: A Very Maui Christmas in the best selling anthology Holiday Magic, and The Honeymoon House in the best selling anthology Almost Home. She is currently working on a new novel for Kensington.

Readers are welcome to visit her at www.marycarterbooks.com.

Visit her at Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Mary-Carter-Books/248226365259.

About The Pub Across the Pond

“Sometimes leaving home is the only way to find where you belong….”

Carlene Rivers is many things. Dutiful, reliable, kind. Lucky? Not so much. At thirty, she’s living a stifling existence in Cleveland, Ohio. Then one day, Carlene buys a raffle ticket. The prize: a pub on the west coast of Ireland. Carlene is stunned when she wins. Everyone else is stunned when she actually goes.

As soon as she arrives in Ballybeog, Carlene is smitten, not just by the town’s beguiling mix of ancient and modern but by the welcome she receives. In this small town near Galway Bay, strife is no stranger, strangers are family, and no one is ever too busy for a cup of tea or a pint. And though her new job presents challenges–from a meddling neighbor to the pub’s colorful regulars–there are compensations galore. Like the freedom to sing, joke, and tell stories and, in doing so, find her own voice. And in her flirtation with Ronan McBride, the pub’s charming, reckless former owner, she just may find the freedom to follow where impulse leads and trust her heart–and her luck–for the very first time.

My Thoughts:

The Pub Across the Pond by Mary Carter is a great fun read. Carlene Rivers has become disillusioned in her life. Her mother died when she was young and her father as a result of this has an obsessive compulsive disorder. Because of this she manages her father's gym because he is unable to do this for longer than a few hours a day. So when she goes to an Irish fair with a friend of hers she decides to buy a raffle ticket for a chance to win a pub in Ireland. Now who would not want to win a pub in Ireland of all places. She never expects to win, but she does and it does not take her long to decide to accept the pub.

Ronan McBride is a gambler and loses once to often, thus the raffle to save the family. Ronan picks Charlene up at the airport and the sparks fly and from then on it is a roller coaster ride of fun. Running a pub is a task in itself let alone one in another country where there are people who do not want her there. She perseveres and comes to love Ireland and the people of Ballybeog. So the sparks continue to fly along with the flow of beer, gossip and tea... I loved this story, full of quirky characters and wonderful descriptions of a country full of beauty. Oh yes, a great romance too!! I highly recommend this book.

I received a copy of this review book from Pump Up Your Books and was not monetarily compensated for my review.