Books by Cecelia Ahern

From the no. 1 bestselling author of PS, I Love You comes an enchanting novel about two childhood friends whom fate and destiny can't help toying with...From naughty children to rebellious teenagers, Rosie and Alex have stuck by each other through thick and thin. But just as they're discovering the joys of teenage nights on the town and dating disasters, they're separated. Alex's family moves from Dublin to America - and Alex goes with them. For good.Rosie's lost without him. But on the eve of her departure to join Alex in Boston, Rosie gets news that will change her life forever - and keep her at home in Ireland.Their magical connection sees them through the ups and downs of each other's lives but neither of them knows whether their friendship can really survive the years and miles - as well as new relationships. And at the back of Rosie's mind is whether they were meant to be more than just good friends all along. Misunderstandings, circumstances and sheer bad luck have kept them out of each other's arms, but when presented with the ultimate opportunity, will they gamble everything - including their friendship - for true love?Destiny, Alex and Rosie discover, is a funny thing and fate isn't quite done with them yet...

aTender, funny and romantic Marie ClaireShe has just two weeks. Two weeks to teach him how to fall in love with his own life.Adam Basil and Christine Rose are thrown together late one night, when Christine is crossing the Ha'penny Bridge in Dublin. Adam is there, poised, threatening to jump.Adam is desperate but Christine makes a crazy deal with him. His 35th birthday is looming and she bets him that before then she can show him life is worth living .Despite her determination, Christine knows what a dangerous promise she's made. Against the ticking of the clock, the two of them embark on wild escapades, grand romantic gestures and some unlikely late-night outings. Slowly, Christine thinks Adam is starting to fall back in love with his life. But is that all that's happeninga ?A novel to make you laugh, cry and appreciate life, this is Cecelia Ahern at her thoughtful and surprising best.

Tender, magical and captivating - a story of family, friends, and the unlikeliest of romances . . .Elizabeth's sister Saoirse is a red-haired whirlwind, always leavng behind pieces that Elizabeth struggles to pick up. One of these pieces is Saoirse's 6-year-old son Luke, a quiet, contemplative boy. When Luke is playing in Elizabeth's garden one day, witnessing the latest scene between his mother and his aunt, a friend named Ivan walks into his life. This unexpected and rather mysterious friend will change Luke - but will have an even greater impact on Elizabeth. Always capable and self-contained, Elizabeth finds Ivan creeping under her skin and beginning to change her life in ways she could never have imagined.With all the warmth and poignancy fans have come to expect from Cecelia Ahern, this is a magical novel, and a suprising love story.With all the warmth and poignancy fans have come to expect from Cecelia Ahern, this is a novel full of magic, heart and a suprising love story.

”Kunsten at forelske sig” er en ny international bestseller af forfatteren til ”P.S. Jeg elsker dig”, Cecelia Ahern En sen nattetime, da Christine Rose er på vej hjem over Ha’Penny Bridge i Dublin, ser hun en mand, der skal til at kaste sig i floden. Det lykkes hende at få overtalt manden, der hedder Adam, til at komme ned, og de indgår en aftale. Hun får 14 dage til at vise ham, at livet er værd at leve, men hvis han ikke har ændret mening, når han fylder 35 om to uger, vil han tage sit liv. Men Christines liv er mildest talt heller ikke perfekt. Hun har forladt sin mand og har problemer med både familie og arbejde, og efterhånden som deres deadline nærmer sig, må hun indse, at Adam ikke er den eneste, der har brug for en hjælpende hånd. Endnu en rørende kærlighedshistorie af chick lit-dronningen Cecelia Ahern, der har skrevet romanerne bag filmen ”P.S. Jeg elsker dig” og ”Love, Rosie”

NOGLE MENNESKER VENTER HELE LIVET på at finde deres sjæleven. Men ikke Holly og Gerry. De havde været kærester siden teenageårene, kunne afslutte hinandens sætninger og selv når de skændtes, kunne de ikke lade være med at le. Ingen kunne forestille sig Holly uden Gerry eller omvendt. Før det utænkelige sker. Gerry dør og efterlader Holly sønderknust. Men da hendes 30-års fødselsdag nærmer sig, vender han tilbage. Han har efterladt hende en række breve – et til hver måned i året efter hans død, og de viser hende blidt, at livet går videre uden ham.Med lidt hjælp fra vennerne og familien, der både elsker hende og driver hende til vanvid, finder Holly langsomt gennem brevene frem til et nyt liv.En hjertevarm fortælling om at holde fast, give slip og lære at elske igen.

SYV ÅR EFTER sin mand, Gerrys, død, og seks år efter at hun læste hans sidste brev, er Holly tilsyneladende kommet videre med sit liv. Hun har fået arbejde i sin søsters luksusgenbrugsbutik og trives fint med at gemme sig lidt for verden.Så da søsteren beder hende fortælle historien om Gerrys efterladte breve til en podcast, siger Holly kun modvilligt ja, bange for at rippe op i gamle sår.Men podcasten får enorm succes, og pludselig må Holly forholde sig til en række personer, der kontakter hende – alle med én ting tilfælles: De er dødeligt syge og ønsker selv at efterlade breve med missioner til deres kære.Pludselig trækkes Holly tilbage til den verden, hun har kæmpet så hårdt for at forlade. Men projektet leder hende også ud på en ny utrolig, livsbekræftende rejse og vækker minderne om hendes store kærlighed.

The long-awaited sequel to the bestselling PS, I Love You! It's been seven years since Holly Kennedy's husband died - six since she read his final letter, urging Holly to find the courage to forge a new life. She's proud of all the ways in which she has grown and evolved. But when a group inspired by Gerry's letters, calling themselves the PS, I Love You Club, approaches Holly asking for help, she finds herself drawn back into a world that she worked so hard to leave behind. Reluctantly, Holly begins a relationship with the club, even as their friendship threatens to destroy the peace she believes she has achieved. As each of these people calls upon Holly to help them leave something meaningful behind for their loved ones, Holly will embark on a remarkable journey - one that will challenge her to ask whether embracing the future means betraying the past, and what it means to love someone forever...

Meaningful, moving and magical - the classic bestselling love storyEveryone needs a guardian angel...Some people wait their whole lives to find their soul mates. But not Holly and Gerry.Childhood sweethearts, they could finish each other's sentences and even when they fought, they laughed. No one could imagine Holly and Gerry without each other.Until the unthinkable happens. Gerry's death devastates Holly. But as her 30th birthday looms, Gerry comes back to her. He's left her a bundle of notes, one for each of the months after his death, gently guiding Holly into her new life without him, each note signed 'PS, I Love You'.As the notes are gradually opened, and as the year unfolds, Holly is both cheered up and challenged. The man who knows her better than anyone sets out to teach her that life goes on. With some help from her friends, and her noisy and loving family, Holly finds herself laughing, crying, singing, dancing - and being braver than ever before.Life is for living, she realises - but it always helps if there's an angel watching over you.

A woman in trouble turns to ice cream, and just might find love in its pursuit. Emelda is 46 years old. Her husband, Charlie, has just left her for a 23-year-old dancer. Her five difficult sons worship their father and blame Emelda for his departure. On top of everything else, she has to struggle with a new job at the local supermarket. For comfort she turns to her only true friend ? ice-cream. But lately there's a handsome man driving the ice-cream van. Could romance be about to blossom? Part of successful Open Door series, originally designed to help adult literacy in Ireland. Original stories from best-selling authors and important new voices, never published in the States before now.

I am woman. Hear me roar! Have you ever imagined a different life? Have you ever stood at a crossroads, undecided? Have you ever had a moment when you wanted to roar? The women in these startlingly original stories are all of us: the women who befriend us, the women who encourage us, the women who make us brave. From The Woman Who Slowly Disappeared to The Woman Who Was Kept on the Shelf and The Woman Who Returned and Exchanged her Husband, discover thirty touching, often hilarious, stories and meet thirty very different women. Each discovers her strength; each realizes she holds the power to make a change. Witty, tender, surprising, these keenly observed tales speak to us all, and capture the moment when we all want to roar. - Now being produced for TV by Nicole Kidman and the team behind “Big Little Lies”.

Celestine North lever i et samfund, der kræver perfektion. Efter at være blevet mærket som FLOSSET af den moralske domstol, har Celestine mistet sin frihed. Dommer Crevan har erklæret hende til at være samfundets største trussel, og hun lever nu under jorden, konstant på flugt fra myndighederne. Med sig har hun den indadvendte, men stærkt attraktive Carrick, det eneste menneske hun kan stole på – og sammen har de en plan, der kan få hele det PERFEKTE samfund til at smuldre. Dommer Crevan har overtaget, og tiden er ved at løbe ud for Celestine, der er nødt til at træffe en livsfarlig beslutning: Skal hun redde sig selv eller sætte livet på spil for at redde alle de andre FLOSSEDE? Og vigtigst af alt: Kan hun bevise, at man ikke skal være fejlfri for at være et menneske?

If you could wish for one gift this Christmas, what would it be?Lou Suffern wishes he could be in two places at once. His constant battle with the clock is a sensitive issue with his wife and family.Gabe wishes he was somewhere warm. When Lou invites Gabe, a homeless man who sits outside his office, into the building and into his life, Lou's world is changed beyond all measure...An enchanting and thoughtful Christmas story that speaks to all of us abut the value of time and what is truly important in life.

The stunning YA debut from internationally bestselling author Cecelia Ahern.Celestine North lives a perfect life. She's a model daughter and sister, she's well-liked by her classmates and teachers, and she's dating the impossibly charming Art Crevan.But then Celestine encounters a situation in which she makes an instinctive decision. She breaks a rule and now faces life-changing repercussions. She could be imprisoned. She could be branded. She could be found FLAWED.In this stunning novel, bestselling author Cecelia Ahern depicts a society in which perfection is paramount and mistakes are punished. And where one young woman decides to take a stand that could cost her everything.

She will change your life forever... In the south-west of Ireland, rugged mountains meet bright blue lakes and thick forests. Deep in the woods, a young woman lives alone, forever secluded from the world, her life a well-kept secret. She possesses an extraordinary talent, the likes of which no-one has seen before: a gift that will earn her the nickname Lyrebird. When Solomon stumbles into Laura's solitary existence, her life is turned on its head. Pulled from her peaceful landscape to the cacophony of Dublin, she is confronted by a world desperate to understand her. But while Solomon knows the world will embrace Laura, will it free her to spread her wings - or will it trap her in a gilded cage? Like all wild birds, she needs to fly free... Lyrebird is a thoughtful, deeply moving love story; a story of the wild heart in us all and the quiet that lies underneath the world's noise.

A box of possessions. A father with no memory. A daughter with just one day to piece together the past.When Sabrina Boggs stumbles upon a mysterious collection of her father's belongings, her seemingly uneventful life suddenly alters and shifts.In the single day she has to search for answers about the man she thought she knew, a man who can no longer remember his own story, Sabrina uncovers far bigger secrets than she could have imagined. And discovers that sometimes it's the people closest to us that we know the least.

*Winner of the Irish Popular Fiction Book of the Year*A thoughtful, captivating and ultimately uplifting novel from this uniquely talented authorThe year that changed my life. For Jasmine, losing her job felt like losing everything.The year I found home. With a life built around her career and her beloved sister Heather, suddenly her world becomes the house and garden she has hardly seen and the neighbours she has yet to meet.The year I met you. But being fired is just the beginning for Jasmine. In the year that unfolds she learns more about herself than she could ever imagine - and more about other people than she ever dreamed. Sometimes friendship is found in the most unexpected of places.

The uplifting and thoughtful novel from the uniquely talented author. Everyone has a story to tell...Journalist Kitty Logan's career has been destroyed by scandal, and she now faces losing the woman who guided her and taught her everything she knew. At her mentor's bedside, Kitty asks her - what is the one story she always wanted to write?The answer lies in a file buried in Constance's office: a list of one hundred names. There is no synopsis, no explanation, nothing else to explain what the story is or who these people are. The list is simply a mystery.But before Kitty can talk to her friend, it is too late.With everything to prove, Kitty is assigned the most important task of her life - to write the story her mentor never had the opportunity to. Kitty has to not only track down and meet the people on the list, but find out what connects them. And, in the process of hearing ordinary people's stories, she uncovers Constance's - and starts to understand her own...

Lose yourself in the magical world of No.1 bestselling author, Cecelia Ahern.Are you taking your life for granted?Lucy Silchester is. She's busied herself with other stuff: friends' lives, work issues, her deteriorating car, that kind of thing. But she's stuck in a rut - and deluding everyone. Only Lucy knows the real truth.Time for a wake-up call - a meeting with life. And life turns out to be a kindly, rather run-down man in an old suit, who is determined to bring about change - and won't let Lucy off the hook.Sometimes we all need to make time for our life...

Lose yourself in the magical and mesmerising story from Cecelia Ahern of how tomorrow can change what happens today.Sometimes tomorrow has to start today...Tamara Goodwin has always lived in the here and now, never giving a second thought to tomorrow. Until a travelling library arrives in her tiny village, bringing with it a mysterious, large leather-bound book locked with a gold clasp and padlock.What she discovers within the pages takes her breath away and shakes her work to its core.

The magical new novel from the number 1 bestselling author of 'PS, I Love You' and 'Where Rainbows End'.Sandy Shortt has been obsessed about where missing things - and people - end up ever since the disappearance of a childhood friend twenty years ago. It has even motivated her to become a private investigator, attempting to track down missing loved ones and giving devastated families hope.So when she finds herself one of the missing people, stuck in a strange place with people who vanished into thin air years ago, she wonders if she has found the answer to one of life's greatest mysteries. But if she has, will she be able to return to life as she knows it? If Jack Ruttle, her latest client and mystified by her own disappearance, has anything to do with it she will...

I Celestines verden er alt perfekt, og alt skal være perfekt. Celestine kommer fra en idyllisk familie, hun er smuk, får gode karakterer og har en kæreste, Art, der elsker hende. Hvad mere kan man ønske sig? Flosset foregår i en tid ikke langt fra vores i en verden, hvor det perfekte efterstræbes af alle. Arts far, dommer Crevan, leder et korstog mod de svage, de moralsk forkerte, mod alle de, der forbryder sig mod reglen om at være en perfekt borger. Det er ham, der dømmer og bestemmer, hvem der skal mærkes med det frygtede F, hvis de falder uden for normen. Er man først mærket, skal det kunne ses af alle, og man er udstødt fra samfundet, har begrænsede rettigheder og er shamed for resten af livet. Da Celestine ser en ældre mand på bussen komme i problemer, tøver hun ikke med at hjælpe ham. Hvad så, hvis han er mærket, han er vel stadig et menneske? Hendes beslutning om at hjælpe den ældre mand stiller Celestine over for sit livs valg: hun må enten benægte, hvad hun har gjort eller stå fast på sine principper med fare for, at hun dermed må vinke farvel til det perfekte liv, hun hidtil har levet – inklusive Art …

Kunsten at blive forelsket er en ny international bestseller af forfatteren til P.S. Jeg elsker dig, Cecelia Ahern. En sen nattetime, da Christine Rose er på vej hjem over Ha'penny Bridge i Dublin, ser hun en mand, der skal til at kaste sig i floden. Det lykkes hende at få overtalt manden, der hedder Adam, til at komme ned, og de indgår en aftale. Hun får 14 dage til at vise ham, at livet er værd at leve, men hvis han ikke har ændret mening, når han fylder 35 om to uger, vil han tage sit liv.Men Christines liv er mildest talt heller ikke perfekt. Hun har forladt sin mand og har problemer med både familie og arbejde, og efterhånden som deres deadline nærmer sig, må hun indse, at Adam ikke er den eneste, der har brug for en hjælpende hånd.Endnu en rørende kærlighedshistorie af chick lit-dronningen Cecelia Ahern, der har skrevet romanerne bag filmen P.S. Jeg elsker dig og Love, Rosie.