Maria Mutch

A brilliant writer friend of mine said to me that writing a novel isn’t an efficient process and people want the efficient.

- 1 - I am writing this for Verity because she cannot write it for herself. Verity takes pen to paper; two minutes in, her hand begins to shake. She crosses out a word. Rewrites. Crosses out another. Makes an illegible notation. When her fingers spasm and she drops the pen, she crumples the paper and closes her eyes. She sits at the old typewriter and presses keys with irregular, staccato care. The black lines on the page make her squint.

Previously published in the US as The Daughters of Ireland. The second book in the #1 international bestselling series about the powerful ties between three women and their determination to return home. The war is over. But life will never be the same... It is 1925 and Castle Deverill has burned to the ground. War and deception have divided the daughters of Ireland, but Celia vows to return her ancestral home to its former glory.