High Potential by Ber Carroll
Published 1 June, 2008
Katie Horgan is a hard-working Sydney lawyer on the cusp of becoming a partner in her prestigious law firm. Just as she is about to be sent to Ireland as part of her training Katie meets the brilliant and handsome Jim Donnelly, who, like her parents, is Irish. Katie soon settles into the Dublin lifestyle, working in a clinic providing free advice for the homeless and making friends with the warm and quirky Mags. When not working, Katie attempts to track down her long-lost extended family. Her previous attempts to glean information from her mother had resulted in frosty silence. Eventually, disaster strikes and after a series of miscommunications and shocking revelations Katie discovers that life and love aren’t as black and white as she’d always thought. I enjoyed this book and managed to read it in just two sittings. It is a very decent example of Aussie chick-lit. The ingredients were all spot on-believable plot, an engaging pace, and a very likeable but ever so slightly flawed lead character.
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