Once, Twice, Three Times an Aisling

'There aren't enough words for how much I love it' MARIAN KEYES 
'The Irish answer to Bridget Jones . . . will have you laughing one minute and crying the next' OK 
 
THE ADDICTIVE AND UTTERLY HILARIOUS ROMANTIC COMEDY FROM THE NO. 1 BESTSELLING AISLING SERIES 
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Aisling is thirty, flirty and frazzled. 
 
But - just when she should finally be feeling all grown-up - she's floundering. 
 
Because when you're recovering from a broken heart and struggling to keep your café as sizzling as your award-winning sausages, it's hard to feel you've really made it as an adult. 
 
Which why now is NOT the time for a delicious new man to show up, her best friend to demand the hen do of the century and a surprise celebrity appearance . . . 
 
But Aisling, never one to worry about having too much on her plate, rolls up her sleeves: she's got this. 
 
Until she discovers that being a proper grown-up means you can't do everything. Sometimes you will let someone down. 
 
But will it be those she loves . . . or herself? 
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'Humour, warmth &amp; quintessential Irishness. Incredibly uplifting' WOMAN &amp; HOME 'BOOKS OF THE YEAR' 
 
'Hilarious' HELLO! 
 
WINNER OF POPULAR FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE AN POST IRISH BOOK AWARDS 
 
Praise for the Aisling series: 
 
'Hailed as the Irish answer to Bridget Jones . . . stuffed with laughs' Daily Mail 
 
'A joyful, emotional, heartfelt romp of a novel' Heat 
 
'The year's funniest book to date' Hello

Plenty of acutely observed running jokes . . . The female relationships are as charmingly drawn as ever . . . It's not difficult to see why Aisling has become such a phenomenon in Irish publishing

The Irish answer to Bridget Jones . . . will have you laughing one minute and crying the next. Emer McLysaght and Sarah Breen's effortlessly clever writing with heaps of humour, sharp observations and witty dialogue is being described as this year's funniest novel to date. Could this be the best Aisling book so far?

Our favourite resident of Ballygobbard is back in this third instalment of my go-get-happy series

Prim and proper Aisling is back in this third hilarious instalment

Praise for Oh My God, What a Complete Aisling and The Importance of Being Aisling

There aren't enough words for how much I love it. It's feicin' HILAIRE and very touching

Aisling and the novel have a great big thumping heart

The Irish answer to Bridget Jones . . . it's stuffed with laughs

Funny, on-the-nose accounts of a certain kind of Irish girl we all know

Will have you laughing out loud one minute and crying the next. This is a joyful, emotional, heartfelt, hilarious romp of a novel

Her voice leaps off the page . . . it's this depth of character and eye for detail that makes comparisons with Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones series spot-on

Should come with a health warning. Ten pages in my face hurts from grinning

Funny and human, Aisling is already queen of Irish comic fiction. Long may she reign

Hilariously funny, but often very moving too. Aisling is the real Voice of Ireland

One of my fave novels of 2017. It really does remind me of Marian Keyes

Will have you shedding a tear as well as laughing your socks off

Humour, warmth and quintessential Irishness. Much hilarity, many tears and an ending that is incredibly uplifting

Emer McLysaght (Author) 
 Emer McLysaght is the former editor of The Daily Edge and has worked extensively in journalism and radio. 
 
Sarah Breen (Author) 
 Sarah Breen is a journalist whose work has appeared in Stellar, Image, U, the Irish Independent and The Gloss.

Aisling is thirty, flirty and frazzled. 
 
But - just when she should finally be feeling all grown-up - she's floundering. 
 
Because when you're recovering from a broken heart as well as struggling to keep your café as sizzling as your award-winning sausages, it's hard to feel you've really made it as an adult. 
 
Which is just the moment for the unexpected to strike and complicate everything. 
 
Now is not the time for a delicious new man to show up, her best friend to demand the hen do of the century and a surprise celebrity appearance. 
 
But Aisling, never one to worry about having too much on her plate, rolls up her sleeves: she's got this. 
 
Until she discovers that being a proper grown-up means you can't do everything. 
 
Sometimes you will let someone down. 
 
But will it be those she loves, or herself?

The Importance of Being Aisling

THE NO 1 IRISH BESTSELLER and hilarious follow-up to the smash-hit romantic comedy Oh My God, What a Complete Aisling - fans of Derry Girls will LOVE this 
 
'Should come with a health warning. Ten pages in my face hurts from grinning' Sunday Independent 
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Job. Flat. Boyfriend. Tick. Tick. Tick. 
 
Just when Aisling (seems) to be winning at life, she discovers it has other ideas: 
 
Fired. Homeless. Dumped. Tick. Tick. Tick. 
 
As her new life comes crashing down, Aisling is forced to move back home to Ballygobbard and her mam. 
 
Is this the end of the world? 
 
Or might returning to her roots remind this small-town girl just what she'd lost in the big city? 
 
WINNER OF POPULAR FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018 - Irish Book Awards 
 
'The Irish answer to Bridget Jones. It's stuffed with laughs' Daily Mail 
 
'Should come with a health warning. Ten pages in my face hurts from grinning' Sunday Independent 
 
'You'll be laughing out loud one minute and crying the next' Heat 
 
'It's like a hug in a book' Buzzfeed

Hailed as the Irish answer to Bridget Jones . . . it's stuffed with laughs

With its ability to have you laughing out loud one minute and crying the next, this is a joyful, emotional, heartfelt, hilarious romp of a novel

Incredibly funny, warm, fabulous, how do they do it?

Should come with a health warning. Ten pages in my face hurts from grinning and my neck hurts from nodding along in recognition at the universal wisdoms. There's a smile in every page, some genuinely hilarious moments, and so much heart. The Importance of Being Aisling is a day-maker - the cure for cynicism, Trump and whatever else ails you

Hilarious and life-affirming, this is just the book to banish the winter blues

Just as charming as its predecessor. Funny and human, Aisling is already queen of Irish comic fiction. Long may she reign

This duo's beloved Irish heroine is back with a bang . . . Brilliantly funny, with a lead character you can easily see yourself in

Aisling is the perfect heroine for these strange times we live in. They say that we get the heroes we deserve, so we must have all done something pretty amazing to live in the Age Of Aisling

A gift of both books this Christmas will see the recipient barely stir from reading for days

Praise for Oh My God, What a Complete Aisling

This hilarious and heart-warming book had us alternately laughing and crying. The year's funniest book to date

Both Aisling and the novel have a great big thumping heart

Excellent craic that will have you shedding a tear as well as laughing your socks off

Oh lads! This book! There aren't enough words for how much I love it. It's feicin' HILAIRE and very touching

You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll want to invest in a shumper (though not for going OUT OUT) and as soon as you've finished it, you'll want to reread this hilarious novel, which will also get you in the right feels

With witty dialogue, sharp observations and piles of humour, this is a riot of a read, but with plenty of depth, too - we found ourselves choking up as well as, erm . . . peeing with laughter

Funny and touching . . . we fell in love with the heroine of Oh My God What a Complete Aisling, about a small-town girl in Dublin

This quickfire tragi-comedy is bursting with clever one-liners and acute observations

A runaway success . . . it's an uplifting romcom that combines elements of Bridget Jones and Four Weddings with Father Ted

This hilarious Irish bestseller, which came to life via a viral Facebook page, follows country girl Aisling as she moves from her hometown to big city living in Dublin. She's sweet, a little clueless but a force to be reckoned with

Aisling is an absolute gem of a character and this book is a breath of fresh air

Hilarious . . . A well-crafted tale with warmth and emotion

It's sweet and it's funny and it's moving and it's perfect

The funniest, warmest, loveliest book I've read in so long. The characters are so hilarious and relatable, I laughed non-stop and genuinely didn't want it to end

I've spent the last forty-eight hours laughing my head off at this novel . . . but it's not just comic, there's a real heart to it and it's often very moving

If I had a book of the year award for 2017 it would go to Oh My God, What a Complete Aisling . . . It left me giggling at some pages and sobbing at others

One of the funniest books I've read in twenty years

Another funny and lovable take on everyone's favourite small-town girl Aisling. A highly entertaining and absorbing addition to your bookshelves

Every Irish person knows an Aisling, and there is nothing more delightful than recognising something familiar being projected back at you through a novel. While the books are both extremely funny, they also reflect a period in Irish culture and centre around a heartwarming story for Aisilings of the ages

Emer McLysaght and Sarah Breen conceived the character of Aisling in their sitting room in 2008, when they began to observe the many traits, characteristics and quirks of a very particular type of Irish girl; one they identified around them and one they identified with. 
 
Oh My God, What a Complete Aisling was an instant sensation in their native Ireland and the Number One bestselling adult fiction title of 2017. 
 
Emer McLysaght is the former editor of The Daily Edge and has worked extensively in journalism and radio. 
Sarah Breen is a journalist whose work has appeared in Stellar, Image, U, the Irish Independent and The Gloss.

Meet Aisling. 
She's a country girl learning to love the city sophistication of unlimited Pinot Greej and brunch, though smashed avocado still mystifies her. She can plan anything, from Secret Santa for her ungrateful colleagues to a hen party for not one but two brides. 
But even Aisling is thrown off course when her job and relationship suddenly go up in smoke. 
Life in the city was supposed to be glamorous and grown-up, but all at once she's heading home to live with her mother. (Not without a detour to Vegas first - she's unemployed and single, not dead.) 
But between making new friends and rivals, and finding her eye caught by a very handsome but very unavailable new man, going home is full of surprises. Could small town life actually hold the answers Aisling is missing?

Oh My God, What a Complete Aisling

'There aren't enough words for how much I love it' MARIAN KEYES 
 
THE SMASH-HIT ROMANTIC COMEDY THAT WILL MAKE YOU LAUGH AND CRY - IF YOU'RE A FAN OF DERRY GIRLS YOU'LL LOVE THIS 
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Meet Aisling. She's a small-town girl with a big heart. 
 
She has a steady job and a loyal boyfriend (though he hasn't put a ring on it even after seven years). 
 
Then one disastrous romantic getaway convinces Aisling to leave him behind and head for the bright lights. 
 
But with glamorous new flatmates, a scandal at work and a weird love square, Aisling has no idea what's about to hit her . . . 
 
Fans of Marian Keyes, Bridget Jones and Sophie Kinsella will LOVE this. 
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'Comparisons with Bridget Jones are spot on' Independent 
 
'Will have you laughing your socks off' Fabulous 
 
'Sweet, funny, moving, perfect' The Pool 
 
'You'll laugh, you'll cry . . . an utter ray of sunshine' Red 
 
Can't get enough of Aisling? Then why not read the hilarious follow-up The Importance of Being Aisling - OUT NOW!

Brilliant. You laugh, you cry, you miss home, and you can't put it down

It's a novel that simply roars along, full of proper LOL moments as well as real poignancy. Aisling is the perfect heroine for our chaotic times.

This hilarious Irish bestseller, which came to life via a viral Facebook page, follows country girl Aisling as she moves from her hometown to big city living in Dublin. She's sweet, a little clueless but a force to be reckoned with

A runaway success . . . it's an uplifting romcom that combines elements of Bridget Jones and Four Weddings with Father Ted

Excellent craic that'll have you shedding a tear as well as laughing your socks off

This is a tale of a young woman from the Irish countryside and her travails in Dublin will have you laughing

Country bumpkin Aisling carries this perky, big-hearted romcom. Powered by cracking one-liners, it'll have you chortling through any amount of airport delays

This book is the funniest, warmest, loveliest book I've read in so long. The characters are so hilarious and relatable, I laughed non-stop and genuinely didn't want it to end

You'll laugh. A lot. But you should also get the tissues ready

A book so good, so funny, that it made two strangers talk to each other on a London tube train

I had expected this delightful book to be funny and it really, really is. But I never expected the feels. I didn't expect big fat tears to roll down my country face

A loving ode to a certain type of Irish woman that's hilarious, comforting and warm. A hot water bottle of a book, if you will

Sweet, charming, funny and poignant

Meet Aisling. 
She's a small-town girl who dreams of the big city. 
She has a heart of gold and an iron belief in the power of control tights. 
She has a steady job and a loyal boyfriend (though he hasn't put a ring on it even after seven years). 
Then one disastrous romantic getaway convinces Aisling to leave him behind and head for the bright lights. 
But with glamorous new flatmates, a scandal at work and a weird love square, Aisling has no idea what's about to hit her.

Sarah Breen

Emer McLysaght

The hilarious and addictive romantic comedy from the No. 1 bestseller

She's single and ready to mingle in the bright lights of New York 
 
Aisling, is 31 and life is good. Yes, her relationship with boyfriend John may be over but her café, BallyGoBrunch, is booming and it isn't long before an exciting offer lands. 
 
She has been offered a catering gig in The Big Apple and, together with her best wrap dress and heels, boards a business-class flight to New York to start a new adventure. 
 
But life isn't as easy and glamours as she first thought. Aisling feels homesick for her mum and best friend, Sabhbh and as she tries to find new friends and throw herself into the dating game she can't help but wonder if she's set herself up for more heartbreak? 
 
Yet, New York has so much to offer, especially when a certain fireman comes knocking on her door...

Aisling And The City

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An utter ray of sunshine

Praise for the Aisling Series

Plenty of acutely observed running jokes . . . The female relationships are as charmingly drawn as ever . . . It's not difficult to see why Aisling has become such a phenomenon in Irish publishing

An utter ray of sunshine

Praise for the Aisling Series

Plenty of acutely observed running jokes . . . The female relationships are as charmingly drawn as ever . . . It's not difficult to see why Aisling has become such a phenomenon in Irish publishing

An utter ray of sunshine

Praise for the Aisling Series

Plenty of acutely observed running jokes . . . The female relationships are as charmingly drawn as ever . . . It's not difficult to see why Aisling has become such a phenomenon in Irish publishing

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