#BlogTour #BookReview for The Nanny at Number 43 by Nicola Cassidy #TheNannyatNumber43 @AnneCater @ladynicci @PoolBegBooks

Wanted, a respectable woman to care for a motherless child.

When William D. Thomas’s wife dies in childbirth, he places an advertisement in his local newspaper seeking a nanny for his newborn child.

He is thankful when an experienced nanny arrives at 43 Laurence Street and takes over from his frazzled housekeeper Mrs McHugh.

Mrs McHugh confides in her bedridden friend Betty, who has a bird’s-eye view of all the happenings on Laurence Street, that the Nanny is not all she seems. Betty begins her own investigation into the mysterious woman.

When the bodies of twin babies are discovered buried in a back garden, by a family who have moved from their tenement home into a country cottage, a police investigation begins.

But it is Betty who holds the key to discovering who the Nanny really is … and the reason she came to 43 Laurence Street.

 

MY REVIEW

I absolutely loved this book!!

I love the cover, the characters were great and the plot was excellent – I really enjoyed the author’s debut and I think she has done even better with this book, after reading the blurb I was eagerly awaiting my copy and I have to say it was really worth the wait!!

I thought that the plot was excellent, it is very well planned out and out together and I loved the snippets of the past through the memories the author weaved in to the story.  She did an excellent job at bringing the period and setting to life and it is definitely a book that I will remember – 5 stars from me!!

Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Nanny-at-Number-43/dp/1781998086

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Nicola Cassidy is a writer and blogger from Co. Louth, Ireland.

She started her writing career early, entering short story competitions as a child and became an avid reader.

Encouraged by her English teachers, she chose to study journalism at Dublin City University and while working in political PR and marketing, studied a series of advanced creative writing courses at the Irish Writers’ Centre.

Later she set up a lifestyle and literary blog http://www.ladynicci.com/, which was shortlisted in the Ireland Blog Awards in 2015 and 2016 and finalist in 2017 and 2018.

She signed with Trace Literary Agency in 2016.

December Girl is Nicola’s debut historical fiction novel and is set in the mystical and ancient Boyne Valley, Co. Meath, famed for its stone age passage tombs. Elements of the story are inspired by true events.

Her second novel The Nanny at Number 43 is published by Poolbeg Press.

She lives with her husband and two young daughters in Termonfeckin, Co. Louth.

Follow her at http://www.ladynicci.com/, on Twitter @ladynicci or http://www.facebook.com/ladynicciblog.