WHAT EDEN DID NEXT, Sheila O’Flanagan’s 30th book with Headline, flew straight to the Number One spot on the Irish bestseller chart last weekend, after its first three days on sale, and has remained there for a second week in a row. This follows Sheila’s recent double chart success with the paperback edition of THREE WEDDINGS AND A PROPOSAL, which featured simultaneously in the Irish and UK Top Ten bestseller lists in April. WHAT EDEN DID NEXT was also an Easons Number One bestseller in its first week of sale in Ireland. The novel is also available in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa and other English-language territories. The audio edition narrated by fan favourite Aoife McMahon is also available, and Mobius Books will publish in the US in June 2022.
Lindsay Quayle of LoveReading describes the novel as ‘a joyous tale about love, friendship and healing that will leave you glowing like a warm summer’s day on the Irish coast’ and ‘a captivating exploration of how friendship and love can help us overcome adversity’, by a ‘master storyteller’. Better Reading called it ‘an irresistible, sometimes heart-breaking, ultimately joyful novel of love, loss and finding your own way to happiness.’
2022 marks a landmark year in Sheila’s publishing career as she celebrates her 30th novel with Headline with a major marketing campaign including a blog tour, hidden book drops across Ireland from The Book Fairies, bookseller events and radio interviews.
Five years after the death of her firefighter husband, Eden knows better than anyone that life can change in an instant. Now, instead of the future she had planned with Andy, she has Lila - the daughter he never got the chance to meet. And instead of Andy, she has his family.
Then Eden meets someone. Someone she knew before Andy, before Lila, before the tragedy. Someone who reminds her of how she used to be. But Andy's mother has other plans. And Eden is facing an impossible choice. One that could tear a family apart . . .
Honest and emotionally gripping, WHAT EDEN DID NEXT is an irresistible, sometimes heart-breaking, ultimately joyful, novel of love, loss – and finding your own way to happiness.
Sheila O’Flanagan is an international bestselling novelist, with more than 9 million copies sold. Numerous novels have been immediate and long-lasting No 1s in Ireland and, UK Top 10 Sunday Times Bestsellers, and she is published in more than 20 languages around the world. Her books have been Number 1 bestsellers in Sweden. She is the recipient of the prestigious Irish Tatler Literary Woman of the Year Award.
Praise for WHAT EDEN DID NEXT
‘A joyous tale about love, friendship and healing that will leave you glowing like a warm summer’s day on the Irish coast… Sheila O’Flanagan is a masterful storyteller who delves into female relationships… WHAT EDEN DID NEXT is a captivating exploration of how friendship and love can help us overcome adversity. How lives really can be rebuilt after trauma. And why we should always, always listen to our heart. A gorgeously uplifting, romantic read for the new season.’ – Lindsay Quayle, LoveReading
‘Heart-breaking, life-affirming and unforgettable new novel from Sheila O’Flanagan… Honest and emotionally gripping, WHAT EDEN DID NEXT is an irresistible, sometimes heart-breaking, ultimately joyful novel of love, loss and finding your own way to happiness... With this latest novel, O’Flanagan has once again shown that she is a queen of heart-warming women’s fiction.’ – Better Reading
Irish Independent, ‘Spring into 2022 with the very best of the books being published next year’
The Journal, ‘Irish fiction to look forward to in 2022’
Praise for Sheila O’Flanagan
‘'O'Flanagan doesn't skirt the pain of heartache but embraces it along with the humour (and imperfect judgment) that give her characters their aching credibility... Despite some dark themes, the book's overall tone is light and hopeful.' - Irish Independent on HER HUSBAND’S MISTAKE
‘O'Flanagan is one of our best-known, best-loved and most prolific women's fiction authors’ – Irish Independent
‘One of my favourite authors’ – Marian Keyes
‘O'Flanagan's writing is crisp and concise and her plotting deft’ – Belfast Telegraph
'One of our best storytellers' – Irish Mail on Sunday