Anne Doughty is een auteur wiens werken worden gekenmerkt door een diep inzicht in de menselijke psyche en de complexiteit van relaties. Haar romans verkennen thema's als identiteit, herinnering en de zoektocht naar een thuis, vaak gesitueerd tegen suggestieve Ierse achtergronden. Doughty's schrijfstijl onderscheidt zich door haar verfijnde proza en haar vermogen om personages met diepgaande empathie en realisme neer te zetten, wat lezers een onvergetelijke literaire ervaring biedt. Haar oeuvre weerspiegelt een opmerkelijk vermogen om de nuances van de menselijke ervaring te vangen.
Little Rose McGinley is just seven years old when her family is evicted from their Donegal home, victims of the Clearances of 1861. It is the first step in a long journey for Rose, one that takes her from Donegal to Kerry, and back again to the North. But the feisty girl blossoms into a woman of character with courage and the determination to keep her family together, against all the odds.
Little Clare Hamilton is nine years old when both her parents die in a typhoid epidemic. Claire settles for a time in Belfast, but she longs to return to the country, and she seizes the opportunity of living with her blacksmith grandfather. Between the two a relationship blossoms that will sustain Clare through the years of her adolescence ahead.
The summer of 1957 is the happiest of times for Clare Hamilton, despite a recent loss. She will shortly embark on her final year at Queens University, Belfast, and she is engaged. But her hopes and plans are shattered by a family tragedy, and Clare finds herself taking the Liverpool boat alone, to a new destination of Paris.
Brand-new standalone from the wonderful Anne Doughty set in Ireland during the Great Famine of 1845.
Another installment in the popular saga of the Hamilton family of Ballydown - Rose Hamilton, in her fifties and a grandmother, has much to be thankful for in the steady love of her husband John and their relative prosperity. But she is concerned for her children: Sarah, recently widowed, is burdened with grief, while Sam, married to cold, selfish Martha, is struggling to bring up his six children. Only Hannah, happily married and living in England, causes Rose no worry, though she misses her dreadfully.
Previously published as Come Rain, Come Shine. Will love be enough to overcome the odds? It is 1960 and Clare Hamilton is returning home to her beloved Armagh to marry Andrew, her childhood sweetheart. Full of the hope and possibilities of a newlywed couple, they plan to turn Andrew's ancestral home into a guesthouse. Their ambition is to use their income to buy back the land of the former family estate so that Andrew can quit his hated job as a solicitor and farm the land he had known as a boy. But the sixties are a time of change, and when political unrest increases bookings begin to decline ... Can the pair save their beloved guesthouse and achieve their dreams for a better life? Prepare to be spirited away to rural Ireland in this stunning new saga from Anne Doughty. Previously published as Come Rain, Come Shine Readers LOVE Anne Doughty: `I love all the books from this author' `beautifully written' `would recommend to everyone' `Fabulous story, couldn't put it down!' `Looking forward to the next one.'
'An engaging story of opportunities lost and refound' Express Can love help her through the most difficult decisions?
Sam Hamilton and Robert Scott are grateful to have work at a time of mass- unemployment. With the heartache of Sam's younger son, and the loneliness and anxiety of Robert's youngest daughter, Ellie, this is a story of courage and friendship, of disappointment and achievement, and most of all, of the final triumph of patience and love.
Rosie has always had to contend with her mother's fierce and unpredictable temper despite all the efforts of her kind and patient father, Sam. When Rosie has the opportunity to go to Kerry she takes a step into a completely new world and a future that will bring her happiness on the long journey to Kerry.
It is 1942, and the Second World War has been going on for three wearying years. Alex and Emily Hamilton are both struggling, one with Banbridge's over- worked textile mills, the other with rationing and shortages of both food and fuel which make life hard. But there are still moments of unexpected happiness at even the darkest of times.