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2000s: A wonderfully woven story of people coming to terms with who they are.
2000s: A wonderfully woven story of people coming to terms with who they are.
Sive and Dan Gallagher are devoted to each other. Living the dream in a beautiful old house that Sive has spent the last few years restoring. Set on the grounds of the house is Sive’s haven, an artist’s studio built for her by Dan. Dan’s business is going from strength to strength and they are doing very well financially – or at least that’s what Sive believes. But their marriage is tested to its very core when Dan has a car accident.
Sive’s life is further complicated by Dan’s mother, a formidable woman who rules her clan with an iron fist and has little time for Sive, who she thinks is in a cult because of her bohemian lifestyle, a cult she blames for her son’s downward spiral. But as Sive puts the pieces together, she learns the Gallagher clan are hiding a secret, one that will change all of them forever…
This book is an ode to the beauty of Ireland as well as being a story about love, loss and redemption.The locations in this novel are more than places where the action happens and are in fact both the backdrop and a canvas for the painting of life.
It starts years earlier than ““Marry me Sive and make me the happiest man in Wicklow”
Wexford comes into the novel for many reasons one of them being that it’s the author’s home and she still lives a mile from the village that she grew up in. Sheila is PRO for Wexford Literary Festival too so stories are in her blood.
The Dingle Peninsula, on Ireland’s southwest Atlantic coast, is ringed by sandy beaches and craggy cliffs. It’s also an officially recognised bastion of Irish language and culture. Dunmore Head, has views of the Blasket Islands, famous for Irish-language memoirs documenting rural life in the 1800s and 1900s. Now, it’s famous for lace…
Meet the author as part of #IrishWritersWed on @swirlandthread
Destination : Ireland Author/Guide: Sheila Forsey Departure Time: 2000s
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