Cecelia Ahern: The Marble Collector

Hello everyone,

hope you all are well. This is a book that I got for Christmas, by Cecelia Ahern. Love her novels, have read and reviewed one or two of hers and well consider me a fan.

However, I did have to wrap my head around this book. I really wasn't sure where it was going to go at the start but I kept with it and I enjoyed it.

The story follows Sabrina Boggs and her search to find out the truth behind her father, Fergus. Her father, now in a nursing home with very little memory of the man he was and who the people are around him.

Sabrina had a very difficult relationship with her dad, believing him to have been a serial adulterer and a hard man to get along with. He didn't speak to his own family and had difficulty communicating who he really was/is.

The facade begins to crumble when a box of her fathers things is left for Sabrina to store until he get better. In the box she finds marbles, a whole load of marbles. Some incredibly valuable and all lovingly documented.

Sabrina who didn't even know her Dad liked marbles and who is going through some relationship problems of her own, decides goes down the rabbit hole trying to make sense of the man she thought she knew.

The story is told between flashbacks of Fergus' past and the journey Sabrina goes on. There's shady men, hot men, fun parties, heartbreak, tragedy, love, life and most importantly understanding at last.

This book has a little bit of everything and if you stick with it, it is worth it, I promise.

I hope you enjoy it.

Annie xx

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