Mary Beth Keane Boeken

De Gleesons en de Stanhopes komen naast elkaar te wonen als ze de stad uit trekken. Lena Gleeson voelt zich eenzaam en probeert vriendschap te sluiten met Anne Stanhope, een elegante, maar kille en onstabiele vrouw die met rust gelaten wil worden. Het is aan hun kinderen, Lena’s jongste dochter Kate en Annes enige zoon Peter, om de families bij elkaar te brengen. Maar hun vriendschap wordt danig op de proef gesteld door de tragedie die hun te wachten staat.

Greta Cahill never believed she would leave her village in west Ireland, until she found herself on a ship bound for New York. Despite her family's cynicism, Greta discovers that in America she can fall in love, earn a living, and build a life. She longs to return to show her family what she has made of herself, but at risk of revealing a secret about her past to her children, decides to keep her new life separate, torn from the people she is closest to. Decades later, she discovers that her children, with the best of intentions, have conspired to unite the worlds she has kept apart. And though the Ireland of her memory may bear little resemblance to that of present day, she fears it is still possible to lose it all . . .

A bold, mesmerizingly told story about the woman known as 'Typhoid Mary' and once described as 'the most dangerous woman in America'.

Malcolm Gephardt, gregarious bartender at the Half Moon in Upstate New York, has always dreamed of owning a bar. When his boss retires, Malcolm seizes his chance. His wife, Jess, has devoted herself to her law career, but after years of unsuccessfully trying for a baby finds herself slipping away from her work and her marriage. When a blizzard hits their town, on the same day that Malcolm learns some shocking news about Jess and a key patron of the bar disappears, everyone is trapped. Malcolm and Jess must suddenly look at what it means to be a family, and whether their futures lie elsewhere...

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