Intentions

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Three People. . .

Beatrice Cullen. The beautiful, career-driven Dubliner. So far she hasn't met anyone who has made her want to give up her independent lifestyle and freedom. Until she encounters. . .

Damien Doyle. The charismatic Dean of Students in a medical school in Dublin. But Damien is destined to travel to India for the summer to oversee a charity project in Mumbai. Once there, he is reunited with a former student . . .

. . . the passionate young doctor Iswara Singhanid who is determined to go against her parents' wishes for her marriage and her career.

As Damien and Iswara work together in the intense heat of Mumbai, Beatrice writes to Damien with news from home. But then tragedy strikes and all three find themselves irrevocably joined as tensions, prejudices and long-held traditions surface. Damien finds himself torn between responsibility and love, friendship and duty.

From the leafy city parks of Dublin to the crowded streets of Mumbai, Intentions is an intricately drawn story of love and commitment and of the choices we all have to face.

Reviews

'Engaging and perceptive . . . a great read' - Patricia Scanlan

'An engaging piece of work from one of Ireland's foremost travel writers' - Sunday Independent

'A perfect, escapist beach read with a serious edge' - Irish Examiner

Author Bio

Muriel Bolger is a well-known freelance journalist and editor. Award winning travel writer and Irish Travel Writer of the Year, she has written three guidebooks on her native city. Darting About, Statues and Stories and Dublin's Magical Museums. (Ashfield Press). She's also written a light-hearted look at Dublin writers from Swift to present day, which she wrote to tie in with UNESCO awarding Dublin a City of Literature status. Dublin - City of Literature (O'Brien Press) was published in 2011.

Consequences, her first novel was written at airports, in the sky and on faraway beaches and mountaintops. Its inspiration was a white cat with patches of ginger who tried to steal her lounger in Cyprus and who only features once in the story.

INTENTIONS is her second novel, and she is currently working on her third.