Confessions

Genre: Fantasy
Title: CONFESSIONS OF THE CLEANING LADY
Author: Miriam Newman
Publisher: The Dark Castle Lords Publication
Release Date: 8-14-2008
ISBN: 978-1-921347-62-7
Review Company: Conger Books Review
Review Date: 8-31-2008
Review Rate: 4
Reviewer: JoEllen Conger
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Confessions Of The Cleaning Lady

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Being cursed by displaced faeries is no laughing mater… but Shawna Egan relents and finds them a new home. When they decide to forgive her, they make up their minds to thank her by wishing up a “good man” to share her life. That’s when all the trouble begins.

Review:
When Shawna Egan, the local cleaning lady, discovers she has an old rotten oak tree on her property and cuts it down, she finds a gaggle of homeless faeries trying to figure out just how to return her woodpile back into their home tree. The spiteful faeries curse her with bad luck. She loses her Friday morning account, the car breaks down, and she doesn’t have enough food to feed herself and all her animals.
Shawna doesn’t really want to admit it when she sees fluttery things near her barn, but she really does see the faeries. Once she apologizes to them for having had their home made into fir wood, she finds them another tree. The faeries forgive her and to express their gratitude they vow to bless her with a “good man”. That’s when the Irishman from Killarney, Mal McCurdy, moves in next door.
First, she becomes his housekeeper. Then, she invites him to accompany her to visit her grandparents in Pitch Hollow in the back woods of the Appalachians. That’s when she realizes Mal can sing Irish ballads. After they have discovered their sexuality together, she invites him home to meet her folks, but after Phil, her sleazy step-dad, speaks poorly about Shawna, Mal punches him out. Later, he invites her to visit his family in Killarney. She decides to go with him, although they each have their own issues about trust. Not even the faeries know how it will all turn out when Shawna meets Mal’s extensive family in Ireland.
This is a delightful read. Witty. Sensitive. Provocative. You’ll love it!
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