{"id":32818,"date":"2025-08-30T11:39:18","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T11:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/32818\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T11:39:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T11:39:18","slug":"paper-heart-review-cecilia-ahern-riffs-on-romeo-and-juliet-her-star-crossed-lovers-set-in-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/32818\/","title":{"rendered":"Paper Heart review: Cecilia Ahern riffs on Romeo and Juliet, her star-crossed lovers set in Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nFiction\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cecelia Ahern has sold over 25 million books. Photo: Mark Condren\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/dd808a37-9d17-4523-a22e-b91483f56d64.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Cecelia Ahern has sold over 25 million books. Photo: Mark Condren<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Cecelia Ahern has long held her place among Ireland\u2019s most widely read authors, ever since her whimsical debut PS, I Love You captured hearts on both sides of the Atlantic. With over 25 million books sold and several adapted for screen, Ahern\u2019s work is supremely readable and big-hearted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Her latest novel, Paper Heart, riffs on Romeo and Juliet, imagining how the story might have played out if the teenage lovers had lived in Ireland and been separated by their cruel parents after the revelation of an unplanned pregnancy. Juliet in this case is Pip, a 32-year-old woman, whose life has ossified into routine and resignation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fiction Cecelia Ahern has sold over 25 million books. Photo: Mark Condren Cecelia Ahern has long held her&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32819,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[266],"tags":[359,18,117,19,17,23942],"class_list":{"0":"post-32818","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-people-culture-magazine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}