Esther Doyle is a young Irish girl growing up in a small fishing community in Connemara in the 1950s. Her life is a stable one, bound by the slow rhythms of farming life and the joy of looking after her handicapped sister Nonie. But her existence is horribly changed when she becomes pregnant and is [...]

"Esther Doyle is a true child of Connemara. She is a simple girl with a true heart, and the wild and tangled land of the West sings in her bones. But when Esther is betrayed by her lover and left unmarried and pregnant, the sea and sky are both lost to her. She is sent by her shamed family to the Ho[...]

An emotional tearjerker from the bestselling novelist Marita Conlon-McKenna.

It's hard to pretend that everything is normal when your whole life has been turned upside down ...'She's gone!' The letter said she needed time to be herself again. But what does that mean? Greg and Lucy, at fourteen and twelve, act cool and responsible when their mother leaves. Six-year-old Grace [...]

Everyone knows that Amy and Dan are made for each other. So when they announce their engagement their families are over the moon, especially Amy's mother Helen. What could be more exciting than planning a daughter's wedding?[...]

Alice loves to cook. She believes the secret of good food is to cook with passion. Her love affair with cookery has taken her from her parents' seaside hotel, to Paris and then one of Dublin's finest restaurants. Then she marries Liam, and is happy to hang up her chef's hat and cook for her family a[...]

Molly's perfect life comes crashing down following the unexpected death of her husband David. She is left alone with a big old house to maintain, finances in disarray and her hopes for happiness in a heap. But Molly is a survivor. Despite objections from her two daughters, Molly fears that the only [...]

Molly's perfect life comes crashing down following the unexpected death of her husband David. She is left alone with a big old house to maintain, finances in disarray and her hopes for happiness in a heap. But Molly is a survivor. Despite objections from her two daughters, Molly fears that the only [...]

Amy och Dan bor tillsammans i Dublin. De är i trettioårsåldern, upptagna av sina karriärer och har en stor vänkrets. Deras båda familjer tycker att de är som gjorda för varandra, så när Dan friar till Amy under en romantisk weekendresa till Venedig och Amy säger ja blir släkt och vänner[...]

"Det finns inget skönare i denna värld än ett lyckat äktenskapsmäkleri." Emma Woodhouse i Jane Austens roman Emma.

"Maggie Ryan tyckte att hon hade parat ihop saker och ting hela livet. Från enkla saker som sockor och underkläder i lådor och tvättkorgar, dukningar och menyer, kl�[...]

Amy och Dan bor tillsammans i Dublin. De är i trettioårsåldern, upptagna av sina karriärer och har en stor vänkrets. Deras båda familjer tycker att de är som gjorda för varandra, så när Dan friar till Amy under en romantisk weekendresa till Venedig och Amy säger ja blir släkt och vänner[...]