Captured On Film.: Emma Murray

Wednesday, 8 December 2021

Winging It by Emma Murray

When her husband David announces he’s been offered a job in New York, Saoirse is thrilled. The glamour of the big city, the shopping, the culture, not to mention the free Manhattan apartment and business class air fare – what’s not to like? There’s just the small matter of making it work for their daughter, five-year-old Anna, who isn’t so keen to leave her friends and school behind.

The Big Apple in the middle of summer isn’t quite the holiday Saoirse envisaged, and with David away with work, New York apartment sizes on the miniscule side, and the pace of life faster than the sleepy London suburbs, solo ex-pat parenting pushes Saoirse to her limits.

And as the pressure builds and ‘faking it till she makes it’ isn’t cutting it, there’s only one thing for it – Saoirse and Anna need a new plan, and ‘Winging It’ might be their best option…

Emma Murray returns with this laugh-out-loud funny, compulsively page-turning

What did I think?

Emma is a new author to me and when I started reading I didn't realise it was the third book in a series. I suppose it might have been better to have read the first 2 books prior to reading this one ( I have downloaded them) but I did think it worked well as a standalone title.

The story follows Saoirse (how do you actually pronounce that name??) and her family as they move from England to New York. It was an amusing light read - well written characters and plenty of humour and drama along the way.

I loved Saoirse and I can't wait to catch up with her again in Time Out and The Juggle. I loved Emmas writing style - it really drew me in.

Emma Murray is originally from Co. Dublin and moved to London in her early twenties. After a successful career as a ghostwriter, she felt it was high time she fulfilled her childhood dream to write fiction.