Music Across the Mersey
By (Author) Geraldine O'Neill
Orion Publishing Co
Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
5th April 2018
5th April 2018
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Family saga / generational saga fiction
Paperback
400
Width 201mm, Height 132mm, Spine 25mm
278g
When a Dublin family is torn apart, can a new start in Liverpool help heal the wounds
1940s DublinHandsome widower Johnny Cassidy is out of work, broken-hearted and lost as to how to look after his four children. At his lowest ebb, he's forced to realise that help sometimes comes from the strangest places. With Johnny's family over the sea in Liverpool, it's his wife's spinster cousin Nora who comes to the rescue and has her life turned upside down by this brood of children. With Nora around, Ella Cassidy can be a teenager again rather than trying to raise her younger siblings, while older brother, Sean, finds that music might be his salvation. It seems that each member of the Cassidy family cherishes secret dreams, but will they bring them together or tear them apartA warm and inviting story of family and friendship, duty and desire, perfect for fans of Maureen Lee and Lyn Andrews.O'Neill's warmth and Binchyesque ability to make the reader care about her characters does indeed put her in the storytelling league of Queen Maeve - IRISH INDEPENDENT
Absolutely brilliant. I couldn't put it down. A real triumph - LYN ANDREWSGeraldine O'Neill is the author of the Tara Flynn trilogy, set in 1950s Ireland. She was born in Lanarkshire, Scotland, and has lived in County Offaly, Ireland, since 1991. Formerly a schoolteacher in Ireland and UK, she now writes full time. She is married to Michael Brosnahan, has two adult children and has recently become a grandmother, which she loves.