10 Best ireland books like Where the Edge Is by Gráinne Murphy

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Where the Edge Is

By: Gráinne Murphy

3.64

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

As a sleepy town in rural Ireland starts to wake, a road subsides, trapping an early-morning bus an…

If you liked the ireland plot in Where the Edge Is by Gráinne Murphy , here is a list of 10 books like this:

1. The Woman Before Me (Cate Austin, #1)

By: Ruth Dugdall

4.32

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'Ruth Dugdall's novels are intelligent and gripping, with a sophistica… read more

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2. The Undertaking of Tess

By: Lesley Kagen

3.69

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

From New York Times bestselling author Lesley Kagen. Four months on Amazon's Top 100 women's fictio… read more

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3. Inishowen

By: Joseph O'Connor

4.21

Format: None pages, Paperback

Inspector Martin Aitken's life is a mess. Divorced, his career's in chaos, and the last thing he ne… read more

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4. Water

By: John Boyne

4.33

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

The first thing Vanessa Carvin does when she arrives on the island is change her name. To the local… read more

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  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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5. Earth

By: John Boyne

4.34

Format: 168 pages, Kindle Edition

From million-copy-bestselling author John Boyne, an inescapably gritty story about one young man wh… read more

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  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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6. One for Sorrow (D.I. Callanach, #7)

By: Helen Sarah Fields

4.52

Format: 370 pages, Kindle Edition

One for sorrow, two for joy Edinburgh is gripped by the greatest terror it has ever known. A lone … read more

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  • fiction
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7. How to Build a Boat

By: Elaine Feeney

3.78

Format: 298 pages, Paperback

This is the story of a remarkable boy and his search for his mother, told with warmth, tenderness a… read more

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  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"To some, the world is filled with threats. To others, opportunities."

-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat

"That's dedication and if life's taught me anything, we go to what we love, eventually - we mightn't find it straight away, but we get there."

-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat

"...[W]hile language came readily to Tess when dealing with herself alone, having one-way conversations over all of her choices on her long walks in the woods, or on her way to school, now she no long…"

-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat

"How can I miss someone I have never met? Jamie said. Grief was profoundly different for both humans. One felt an intense anger he had never recovered from, the other knew something was missing, a vac…"

-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat

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8. All the Little Bird-Hearts

By: Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow

3.80

Format: 297 pages, Hardcover

Sunday lives with her sixteen year old daughter Dolly, the same house she has lived in all her life… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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9. The Seventh Son

By: Sebastian Faulks

3.60

Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition

A CHILD WILL BE BORN WHO WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING When a young woman named Talissa answers an adve… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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10. The Island of Longing

By: Anne Griffin

4.15

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

One unremarkable afternoon, Rosie watched, from her bedroom window, her daughter Saoirse come up th… read more

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  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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11. The Coast Road

By: Alan Murrin

3.99

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A poignant and heartbreaking debut novel set in the 1990s in a claustrophobic coast town. With divo… read more

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  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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12. Somebody Knows

By: Michelle McDonagh

4.16

Format: 308 pages, Kindle Edition

: A gripping, addictive page-turner about dangerous secrets and the lengths people will go to keep … read more

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  • irish literature
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13. Tell Me What I Am

By: Una Mannion

3.92

Format: 279 pages, Hardcover

Two women wrenched apart by a family member’s disappearance must find a way back to each other in t… read more

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  • fiction
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14. Þögn (Children's House, #6)

By: Yrsa Sigurdardottir

3.97

Format: 315 pages, Hardcover

Á köldum degi hverfur lítil stúlka úr barnavagni í Reykjavík, fædd af íslenskri staðgöngumóður. Ell… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Knife Edge (Harvey and Birch #1) by Kerry Buchanan

15. Knife Edge (Harvey and Birch #1)

By: Kerry Buchanan

4.10

Format: 231 pages, Kindle Edition

A MESMERIZING BREAK-OUT CRIME THRILLER SET IN NORTHERN IRELAND FULL OF BREATH-TAKING TWISTS Nic … read more

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  • ireland
  • fiction
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16. This Family

By: Kate Sawyer

3.83

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

This house. This family. Mary has raised a family in this house. Watched her children play and l… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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17. The Chamber

By: Will Dean

3.69

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

And Then There Were None meets The Last Breath in this tense and suspenseful locked-room thriller t… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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18. Day One

By: Abigail Dean

3.55

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Marty seems to do no wrong. Trent can’t seem to get things right. When they are thrown together by … read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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19. The Perfect World of Miwako Sumida

By: Clarissa Goenawan

3.83

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From the critically acclaimed author of Rainbirds comes a novel of tragedy and dark histories set i… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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20. Strange Flowers

By: Donal Ryan

3.81

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

In 1973 Moll Gladney goes missing from the Tipperary hillside where she was born. Slowly her parent… read more

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  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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21. In Plain Sight (D.I. Clare Mackay, #2)

By: Marion Todd

4.19

Format: 338 pages, Kindle Edition

A child's life is at stake. Which of the residents of St Andrews is hiding something – and why?When… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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22. The Game

By: Scott Kershaw

3.55

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

To save their life, you have to play. Across the globe, five strangers receive a horrifying mess… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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23. Listening Still

By: Anne Griffin

3.70

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of When All is Said comes a delicious new novel about a young woman who… read more

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  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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24. The Forgotten Shore

By: Sarah Maine

4.34

Format: 405 pages, Kindle Edition

Discover the spellbinding new novel from Sarah Maine, author of the Waterstones Scottish Book of th… read more

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  • fiction
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25. The Instrumentalist

By: Harriet Constable

4.18

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Venice. 1704. In this city of glittering splendour, desperation and destitution are never far away.… read more

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  • fiction
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26. There's Been a Little Incident

By: Alice Ryan

3.86

Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition

A witty and warm debut novel from a young Irish writer. A story of family, grief, and the ways we c… read more

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  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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27. Where the Edge Is

By: Gráinne Murphy

3.64

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

As a sleepy town in rural Ireland starts to wake, a road subsides, trapping an early-morning bus an… read more

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  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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28. Precipice

By: Robert Harris

4.23

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A spellbinding novel of passion, intrigue, and betrayal set in England in the months leading to the… read more

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  • fiction
"There were twelve deliveries a day in London in 1914. It would be in his hands by mid-afternoon. Pg5"

-Robert Harris, Precipice

"The worst crises in politics always occurred, in his experience, when two unrelated problems struck at once. The difficulties weren’t doubled, or even squared, but cubed. Pg345"

-Robert Harris, Precipice

"Major Hankey, secretary of the Committee of Imperial Defence, was brought in by Bongie, and placed in front of him on the table the large red and blue leather-bound volume known as the War Book, he o…"

-Robert Harris, Precipice

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29. The Woodsmoke Women’s Book of Spells

By: Rachel Greenlaw

4.04

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

"I immediately fell under the spell of this artfully crafted world that I swore I was in a rundown … read more

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  • fiction
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30. Gabriel's Moon

By: William Boyd

4.33

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In his most exhilarating novel yet, Britain’s greatest storyteller transports you from the vibrant … read more

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  • fiction
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31. The Couple

By: Sarah Mitchell

3.48

Format: 302 pages, Kindle Edition

Whatever you think you know… you’re wrong. Following a whirlwind four-month romance, lawyer Clai… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary

27 Top fiction books like Where the Edge Is by Gráinne Murphy

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Water

John Boyne

4.33

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Earth

John Boyne

4.34

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One for Sorrow (D.I. Callanach, #7)

Helen Sarah Fields

4.52

Transform Your Habits

How to Build a Boat

Elaine Feeney

3.78

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Prophet Song

Paul Lynch

4.10

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Caledonian Road

Andrew O'Hagan

3.96

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The List of Suspicious Things

Jennie Godfrey

4.29

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You Are Here

David Nicholls

4.08

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