4 books by Geraldine O’Neill
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Overview: Geraldine O’Neill was born in Lanarkshire, Scotland, and now lives in County Offaly in Ireland. She is married to Michael Brosnahan and has two grown-up children, Christopher and Clare.
Genre: General Fiction, Literature
Leaving Clare
Growing up in the 1950s in Kilnagree,, a small village in Co Clare, Rose Barry lives a quiet, predictable life. Working part-time in the local pub while helping her grandmother at home, Rose’s only ambition is to marry a decent local lad and stay close to her family in Kilnagree.
In Offaly, Rose’s pretty, precocious cousin Hannah Martin is hiding dark secrets. Dreaming of the day she can flee her vicious-tempered mother, Hannah finds a welcome escape with her cousins in Kilnagree where she is the life and soul of the party.
Lenora Bentley, whose daughter lives in Kilnagree, also finds peace and tranquility when she visits Co Clare. A wealthy widow, living in a large empty house in Dublin, Lenora is nursing a wound that refuses to heal. In trying to come to terms with her grief. Lenora has closed herself off from a fulfilling social life and the one man who could open the door to a very different future.
Will Rose find happiness in Killnagree or do her fortunes lie elsewhere? Will Hannah break free from her domineering mother and her own dangerous behaviour? And will Lenora ever be able to let her guard down to enjoy a full life again?
All three women are searching for a new life which means leaving the old behind. For Rose Barry it may well mean leaving Clare.
Music From Home
Maria Conti has a full and busy life in 60’s Manchester. Having lost her mother at a young age, she has a close and loving relationship with her father, Leo who owns an Italian restaurant, Leonardo’s. Finding first romance with Paul Spencer seems like the icing on the cake.
Secretly, however, she worries over Leo’s drinking and gambling binges. Then he buys a racehorse she know he cannot afford. Maria has no one to advise her as Leo’s family are in Italy and her mother’s family in Ireland rejected her when she married a foreigner.
Having carefully guarded her father from female attention, Maria’s attitude alters when the elegant Diana Freeman comes into their lives. She hopes that Diana’s presence may distance Leo from his addictions.
Then Leo is tragically killed. In the dark days that follow it emerges that he has left them deeply in debt and their home and her beloved Leonard’s are in jeopardy. Maria has no choice but t o turn to her estranged Irish Family.
Still reeling from her loss, she fins she has yet another challenge to face, In Ireland, as she uncovers a bitter legacy of secrets and lies, she comes to realise that their mother was not the person she’s been led to believe she was.
Sarah Love
As she puts the final stitches in her perfect wedding dress, Sarah Love receives dreadful news which wrecks all her future plans. Heartbroken and humiliated, she leaps at a chance to make a fresh start away from her native Tullamore.
Within a week she has crossed the Irish Sea, and is lodging with other young women in a house off Newcastle city centre, just a short walk from Harrison’s – the rundown knitting and sewing shop where she will work for reserved and troubled spinster, Lucy Harrison.
Sarah now finds herself amongst people of different classes, religion and race, and when her Irish nationality is attacked she must discover the skills to survive.
Putting the past behind her, she channels her energies into rebuilding the old-fashioned, neglected Harrison’s into a thriving business and her wonderful sewing and design skills soon lead her down a new and exciting path in life.
A path without love though, as she is too raw to consider romance again. Or so she thinks…
Summer’s End
Lily Grace has escaped the confines of the Scottish village where she grew up, and is at college in Newcastle. She loves her independent student life and hopes to stretch her wings even further by working on a cruise ship for the summer. The only cloud on the horizon is the blunder she made when she kissed lecturer Gerard Renée, not realising he was a married man.
Then a trip to Ireland for a family funeral changes everything.
There she meets student Dara Ryan and her brother Declan is smitten by the gorgeous Ava, who was abandoned at a convent as a baby. Lily and Dara fall in love but she is fearful that a long-distance love affair is doomed to fail. When her father, fueled by drink and emotion after the funeral, makes a shocking confession, and Ava involves them all in a heartbreaking crisis, Lily realises that Gerard Renée is the least of the problems she must solve before summer’s end.
Perhaps everything will be clearer on a cruise ship under starry Mediterranean skies?
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