I’m Still Standing

Author/Guide: Colleen Coleman

Why a Booktrail?

2000s: Would you play a test-your-relationship board game?

ISBN: 978-1786813954
Genre: Fiction, Romance

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What you need to know before your trail

When Evelyn Dooley married her high-school sweetheart, James, she thought she was set for life. Now she’s twenty-eight, single, and fleeing to Dublin from her hometown to avoid the gossip surrounding their break-up. And all because of a test-your-relationship board game.

This was not in her five-year plan.

Then a chance encounter with gorgeous musician Danny leads to an unlikely friendship, and soon the pair are running music nights together in one of the oldest pubs in Dublin. For the first time Evelyn is following her dreams rather than someone else’s – and sparks are beginning to fly between her and Danny…

But when her savings run out and home beckons, Evelyn has to choose. The safe, comfortable life she left behind, or a new adventure with Danny? Will Evelyn flee back to the familiarity of her ex, or reach for the stars and take a leap into the unknown?

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Dublin and its pubs

I arrived here in Dublin without a clue as to how my life was going to go, and so far, it’s working out better than I ever hoped”

I came to Dublin to figure out what I wanted….

The pub Rosie Munroes

This isn’t like teaching. This is hard graft twenty four seven. At its best it’s full of drunkards and at its worst, it’s dead, quiet as a mausoleum and that when the hours are long and lonely and the overheads suffocate you.

Irish pubs

“I look around at the clusters of tables, at the time-worn stone walls and the great big turf fireplace, the old high stools and the polished hardwood floor that has been walked across by the good and the great for the last half-century. The real-life theatre of human life in all its rawness: sadness and celebration, passions and friendships, songs and music”