Three boys, Liam, Patrick and Hugo, though from very different backgrounds are united in a deep but often times challenging friendship. Her fourth novel, due out in Spring 2016, Under Heaven’s Shining Stars, is set in the 1970s in Cork, Ireland and is a novel about friendship. This tells the story of a journalist who uncovers a story, one with much more to it than a flag. In her third novel, Shadow of a Century, she tells a tale of a battered old flag found in New York in 2016, a century after it was used during the Easter Rising, when Ireland made her final bid for freedom from Great Britain.
It is a sweeping family saga of intrigue and romance against the background of occupied Europe. The story centres on the Buckley family of West Cork and how their lives are pulled in different directions as they become embroiled in the war. Her second book, So Much Owed, is a family saga set during the Second World War. It tells the story of a disparate group of American visitors to Ireland, who, along with their Irish tour guide have a life changing experience in the magical Emerald Isle. Her first book, The Tour, has become a Number 1 bestseller on Amazon. She began writing fiction at the suggestion of her clients on tours, many of whom were sure all the stories she told them would make for a great book.
She has been a tour guide of her beloved home country, a teacher, a university lecturer and a playwright. Last Port of Call is the first book in The Queenstown Series. Unexpectedly, fate takes a hand, and mother and daughter find themselves thrown a lifeline, one that inextricably links them to the stories of men, women and children for whom Queenstown was the last-ever sight of Ireland as they sailed away to new lands and new lives.
The small port town is shaken to its foundations at the loss of the unsinkable ship, but the revelation of a long-held secret means that Harp and Rose have a much more pressing issue to solve, one that could destroy them if they cannot find a solution. The day Titanic sails from Queenstown, taking with it the hopes and dreams of so many, Harp’s life too is devastated. Nobody ever visits the Cliff House, but Harp, Rose and Henry have a happy life together, each accepting the idiosyncrasies of the others. She behaves not as a servant should, but as someone who belongs at the ancestral home of eccentric loner Henry Devereaux. The local women envy her grace and poise while the men admire her beauty. Her mother, Rose, is the reserved and ladylike housekeeper at the Cliff House. She would rather spend her days in the library of the grand Georgian house that she sees as her home than playing on the streets with other children. Twelve-year-old Harp Delaney is an unusual child, quiet and intelligent far beyond her years.
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