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Book review: It’s an emotional ‘bye, bye-bye-bye, bye’ to our national treasure

Our beloved Aisling has her head and heart pulled in opposite directions in the last book of Emer McLysaght and Sarah Breen’s series

Final farewell: Emer McLysaght and Sarah Breen, co-authors of the bestselling five-book Aisling series. Picture: Ruth Medjber

FICTION

Aisling Ever After

By Emer McLysaght and Sarah Breen

Gill Books, €16.99

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With the final instalment of the Aisling series, we bid a fond, bittersweet farewell to one of Ireland’s most beloved women and comedic characters. The fifth book finds our Aisling (and she is our Aisling) at a crossroads in New York city, living out her best life as a celebrity event planner (it’s far from planning Bella Hadid’s parties she was ...