Enya Pickering is a GP, wife to Xander and mother to teenager Finn. One night as she’s driving in heavy rain Enya is stopped on a road where there’s been a road traffic accident and gives CPR to a fifteen-year-old boy who survives his injuries. Initially she thinks it could be her own son lying there and the circumstances set off the mental health issues she’d had since her mother drowned on her 47th birthday. ‘Into The Storm’ is a slow but gentle story of Irish folklore and a woman in a loveless marriage who leaves her family to start up a surgery in the small village of Abbeydooley in the hope that a fresh start will sort out her life. I liked the descriptive characters of Enya, her sister Flora and Margaret, the managing agent who becomes her friend, but jumped over parts written by Enya’s mother that didn’t add to the story and if anything slowed it down. This is a nicely written story that I enjoyed reading and am happy to recommend.

Cecelia Ahern has written another great book. An unusual one with twists and turns to which she's added lots of Irish folklore. It's a kind of 'story within a story' book. As Enya, a GP, approaches the age at which her mother died she begins to question her own mortality. This, the breakdown of her marriage and the aftermath of a terrible storm all contribute to her life unravelling. Thank you to the author, publisher and NetGalley for an early read of 'Into the Storm'.

It is twenty years since I first read and enjoyed Cecelia Ahern's debut novel, 'P.S. I Love You'. A few years later I read 'Thanks for the Memories' which disappointed me, then in 2012 I read a third 'One Hundred Names'. As this is only the fourth one out of her many published novels I cannot say I am a regular reader of her novels. However when I got the opportunity to read 'Into The Storm' the Irish setting and the blurb attracted me and I decided to read this contemporary mystery. 'Into The Storm' was inspired by a 'Rag Tree' a concept that many cultures believe connects heaven, earth and the underworld and this story is about the protagonists stormy journey and her eventual healing. Enya Pickering has suffered a devastating trauma and how she deals with the aftermath makes for an immersive read. In conclusion an emotional novel which is rather dark but well worth reading. I am sure I will be reading more from this author in the future.

I seem to be going through a stage of struggling with books at the moment, and this one was the same. I really liked the idea of it, but really didn't like the main character so I have mixed feelings. Enya is the main character, she's a doctor who has been having marriage issues, her husband is a bit controlling, her 15 year old son Finn doesn't even seem to like her very much, and they live in her husband's late mother's house where her husband keeps it like a shrine to his mother, and she feels very claustrophobic there. Then on her way home on a very wet and stormy night Enya supposedly comes across an accident, a young boy the same age as her son is lying in the road, a victim of a hit and run, and she helps him, along with a taxi driver who has stopped, getting him to hospital. As both Enya and her husband Xander own and run a doctors surgery together their relationship strains and her mental health, which seems a bit all over the place, proves awkward and after Enya is offered the doctor's post at a very rural village she decides to take it to try and sort herself out. She initially antagonises the locals, but slowly, comes to actually like the place and the locals who are all very straightforward. Everything isn't quite as it seems, and I must admit I didn't figure it all out until the secrets started to be revealed towards the end of the book. I found it quite a dark book and I wasn't really sure what was going on most of the time, so I was quite glad to get to the end and figure out what it all meant to be honest! The ending was very satisfying though, and just the way it should have been.

Dr Enya Pickering is a local GP. When one stormy night she is stop by a traumatised Taxi driver on her way home. The man has come across a teenage boy that has been involved in in a hit and run. At first thought that the boy was her own teenage son, as he wears similar clothing. But then realises that he is a boy from her son’s same school. The boy is in a bad way and Enya must perform CPR on him until the Ambulance arrives. After the event she is not only suffering her own issues, after witnessing that night but she is nearing her 47th Birthday. Her mother at the same age died and Enya worries that something is going to happen to her too. She also has problems with her marriage. She decides to get away from the reminders and takes a job as a rural GP in the country. But her problems seem to follow her when the Taxi driver ends up in her new practice door. Saying that he is a suspect in the hit in run and can’t understand they are not looking at her too. Little does he know that she is hiding something from that night. I have been a fan of Cecelia Ahern’s books for several years, so I was looking forward to this one. I found this to be so different from her previous novels. I liked the idea of this story but for me found the storyline to be very slow and the parts regarding Irish folklore didn’t add anything to it for me either to be honest. It is worth the read to see the authors work but not the nest for me. Sorry 3 stars.