What Eden Did Next – Sheila O’Flanagan’s gift for literary authenticity serves her 30th novel well

What Eden Did Next is Sheila O’Flanagan’s 30th novel. She has rarely been out of the bestseller charts since her 1999 debut Suddenly Single, and it’s easy to understand why. Her characters feel completely authentic, real people who make mistakes and sometimes suffer terribly through no fault of their own.

When Eden Hall’s firefighter husband Andy Farrelly was killed in a horrific accident just two weeks after their honeymoon, she hadn’t even told him she ...