A review by itchyfingers
Bad Behaviour by Sheila O'Flanagan

3.0

Darcey and Nieve were the closest and best of friends, through school, as neighbours, travelling round Europe: this was a friendship for life. Until Nieve, returning from Europe a little later than her friend, stole the heart of Aidan, the boy Darcey had fallen in love with in her absence. Aidan was going to propose the very night Nieve caught his eye, and Darcey knew it. For the next ten years she's haunted by the memory of her humiliation. No business success - and there are many - no comfort her warm if eccentric family can offer, not even marriage to Neil, can console her. And then the invitation comes: to the wedding of Aidan and Nieve, neither of whom she's seen since they left Ireland for life in the USA. They're coming home to have the wedding of a lifetime at Ireland's most expensive hotel. Will Darcey be there? Will there be fireworks? And can the past be put to rest at last?

I thought the story was a nice one from Sheila O'Flanagan. A story about the betrayal of friendship and those considered loved ones, yet it emphasizes on the greatness and importance of forgiveness and closure. I liked the ending where Darcey finally falls in love, with the man she used to think she did not love. Also the book goes to reiterate the thin line between being the career driven woman, and the simpleness of happiness of a family. I loved it. Oh, happy endings!