RSVP
By (Author) Tara Moore
Orion Publishing Co
Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
1st March 2011
United Kingdom
Paperback
352
Width 132mm, Height 197mm, Spine 25mm
270g
The Granville Midsummer Ball is always an affair to remember. The who's who of Irish society gather at Carrickcross House - the rural family estate - for a night of revelry. But this year's soiree is extra-special: matriarch Honoria is announcing her grandson Rossa's engagement to Ashling Morrison.
Ashling has been swept off her feet. Tall, dark and handsome, Rossa's the perfect catch, but is he too good to be true Why is Honoria so keen to make Ashling - stepdaughter of her life-long enemy Coppelia - part of the Granville clan Can Rossa's brother Carrick hold on to his position as rightful heir And will ruthless Coppelia have her wayWith the promise of distinguished company, drinking, dancing and murder...who could possibly refuse this invitation Repondez s'il vous plait.Tara Moore was born in Co. Kildare, Ireland, where her father, an army officer, was stationed at the time. Part of her formative years were spent living in the Middle East whilst he was serving a stint with the United Nations. After completing her education at St Louis Convent, Dublin, Tara embarked on a number of unexciting jobs including insurance and banking, whilst secretly harbouring ambitions of becoming the next Maeve Binchy. In the mid-1980s Tara left her Irish fiance, having panicked at the thoughts of settling down in suburbia, and arrived in London with the princely sum of 250 in her pocket, no job and no contacts. A series of unexciting jobs followed, but presently she met the man who was to become her husband and the father of her two sons a Spanish-Moroccan charmer called Jaime. His charm quickly dissipated under a haze of alcohol and she divorced him in the late 1990s, earning the dubious distinction of being the first in her staunchly Roman Catholic family to enter into a divorce. In 2005 she moved to an old Victorian house in Ramsgate on the beautiful East Kent coast and settled down to write. There she met her current husband, David, who she recently married in Italy.