Strangers For Breakfast: A warm, wickedly funny Irish novel
By Kavanagh, Jacqueline
First published 2026
THE HILARIOUS DEBUT NOVEL FROM IRISH AUTHOR JACQUELINE KAVANAGH… When Lisa Jones got the call to collect her aunt’s body, she didn’t expect to inherit a B&B along with it. That was before the rampaging camels, the priest with too-tight skin, and the discovery that a very permanent guest has been quietly occupying the back garden for forty-five years. At forty, Lisa had hit every wall New York had to offer. So when a crumbling Dublin guesthouse lands in her lap — complete with nudist pensioners, a transvestite postman, and a Garth Brooks-obsessed gentle giant in an Afro wig — it turns out that running away and running towards something can look a lot like the same thing. The past, however, has other ideas. And in this house, it refuses to stay buried. Strangers for Breakfast is a warm, funny and quietly moving novel about the lives we stumble into, the secrets we inherit, and why wine before noon is sometimes entirely reasonable. ***** ‘I genuinely couldn’t put it down and was sad when I finished it’ - READER REVIEW ***** ‘OMG what a fantastic, funny and sad book’ - READER REVIEW ***** ‘I have rarely laughed out loud so often reading a book’ - READER REVIEW ***** ‘I had to stop rea…
- Published
- 5 Mar 2026
- Pages
- 375
- Publisher
- To Be Sure Books
- Edition
- Paperback
- Elsewhere
- Open Library
- Comedy
- Drama
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