Deirdre Purcell Volgorde van de boeken (chronologisch)

The Husband is a gripping human story of love in its many guises, of losing everything and ultimately of rediscovering the meaning of family.

Ein gebrochenes Herz. Ein lang gehütetes Geheimnis. Ein Traum, der niemals starb … Irland in den 20er-Jahren. Pearl Somers lebt mit ihren Eltern und Geschwistern im Torhaus des Kilnashone Castle, wo ihr Vater als Chauffeur von Lord und Lady Areton arbeitet. Die Familie ist glücklich. Doch eines Nachts kommt es zu dramatischen Ereignissen, die das Leben aller Bewohner für immer verändern. Mehr als 40 Jahre später, Pearl ist eine erfolgreiche Autorin geworden, wird sie durch Zufall mit den Ereignissen von damals konfrontiert. Sie versucht, sich ihrer Vergangenheit zu stellen. Doch ist es für Pearl bereits zu spät, ihr Glück noch zu finden?

The moving and powerfully engaging story of three sisters marked by a family tragedy. In 1920s' rural Ireland, Pearl Somers lives happily with her parents, her sisters Opal and Ruby, and her little brother Willie, in the gate lodge of Kilnashone Castle, where her father is chauffeur to Lord and Lady Areton. But one dreadful night, a series of dramatic events unfold and the lives of all - elite and ordinary - are changed forever. Over 40 years later, Pearl has become a successful writer. Yet there is one story she has never told, until her young cousin Catherine confesses a secret of her own that opens a door to Pearl's past - one she thought had been firmly sealed forever. When Catherine discovers Pearl's story of heartbreak and yearning, she determines to do her best to reconcile past and present. But is it too late for Pearl to find her own happy ending?

Een jonge Ierse vrouw van goede komaf wordt in 1940 zwanger van een jongeman die lager op de sociale ladder staat.

Five o'clock in the morning. The phone rings in Arabella Moraghan's Dublin bedsitter. The call is one she thought she'd never get: a message from the mother who abandoned her and her two siblings nearly forty years ago.

Was passiert, wenn das Liebste, das eine Mutter haben kann, in Gefahr ist? Spannend und lebensnah erzählt die irische Erfolgsautorin Deirdre Purcell von der extrovertierten Eily und der zurückhaltenden Sophie. Ihre Freundschaft aus Kindertagen und die Liebe zu ihren Männern stehen auf dem Prüfstand, als eine unheimliche Krankheit ihr Lebensgefüge ins Wanken bringt. 'Ein dichter Roman, mit überraschenden Wendungen – und einer so heillosen wie heilsamen Verwirrung der Gefühle.' Buchjournal

Sophie and Riba have known each other since childhood. Though they couldn't be more different - Sophie is elegant and diffident, while Riba is flamboyantly extrovert - the bond between them seems unbreakable. Then Riba's teenaged daughter Zelda falls gravely ill. Frustrated by the limitations of conventional medicine, Riba pins all her hopes on alternative methods. Sophie is torn between her loyalty to her friend and her fear that Zelda, whom she loves like the child she cannot have, will not get the help she desperately needs. United in their distress, Sophie and Riba's husband Brian find themselves drawn to each other. Time is running out for Zelda, for two marriages, and for a friendship...

In Irlanda si respira un'aria nuova dopo il tumulto del boom economico e l'arrivo del divorzio sull'isola cattolica. Sei racconti di autori diversi presentano un gruppo di dublinesi del fine millennio, chiaramente influenzati dal cambiamento. Danny e Jimmy, "fratelli coltelli", si ritrovano dopo vent'anni, tra ricordi e incomprensioni. Ciara affronta una gioventù difficile con una madre che ama le discoteche e le Spice Girls, ma che non la sostiene nei compiti. Altri, come chi è emigrato in Germania, seguono la nazionale di calcio per sentirsi ancora irlandesi, mentre Dublino si riempie di studenti italiani e spagnoli, come Jesus, che conquista la famiglia che lo ospita. Assumpta, invece, deve affrontare un padre ricchissimo che le manda un investigatore privato. Infine, Maggie si sente intrappolata nella sua vita dedicata alla famiglia e cerca un'avventura romantica. Questi sei racconti, con Roddy Doyle in primo piano, offrono uno spaccato della nuova narrativa irlandese, esplorando emozioni e situazioni che riflettono un paese in bilico tra tradizione e modernità.

A family drama between rival daughters that reveals a mothers passion. Larry is an 87-year-old widow. Old and frail, she remembers her youth as if it were yesterday and longs for her past vigor. Larry lives with her daughters. Martha, the good daughter, waits on her mothers every whim. Mary has a career, takes exotic vacations and is mothers favorite, though she never lifts a finger to help. Something has to give. One embarrassing evening, Father Jimmy comes to supper, and pent up feelings emerge. High drama follows, and Larry is nowhere to be found...

Billy is an ordinary 16 year old who lives in Dublin. Jesus, on the other hand, is a rich boy with lovely manners who travels from Barcelona to live with Billy's family for 3 weeks. The plan is Billy should go back to Barcelona with Jesus.

If the bus hadn't broken down that August afternoon on the road between Dublin and Cork, Elizabeth Sullivan would never have met George Gallaher, a travelling actor of infinite charm and fatal weakness. She would not have been forced to marry, nor found herself trapped in an alien landscape.

A cast of seven Irish women writers have taken over the newly refurbished Finbar's Hotel for one memorable night . . .

From the author of SKY and FRANCEY, a novel which charts what happens when someone who is known and trusted is accused of rape.

John und Rose lieben sich. Doch John muss Irland verlassen, um in Kanada zu arbeiten. Dass Rose ein Kind von ihm erwartet, erfährt er nicht. Erst Jahre später kommt es zu einem dramatischen Wiedersehen.

Seduced and abandoned by handsome George Gallaher, Hazel Slye falls in love with Gallaher's innocent son, only to encounter heartbreak once again when an unexpected inheritance and a forbidden romance threaten to part them forever

Working on a newspaper in Montana, beautiful Sky Macpherson is bored by the small-town limitations of her job and frustrated by her infuriating family and a relationship going nowhere. Assigned by the editor of The Courier to write an obituary for the wife of one of the town's most influential citizens, Sky discovers that there is far more to the story than a tragic death. And that the truth may lead her to places she has never been, and danger from which she cannot escape. A stunning novel of suspense and family secrets set amidst the monumental beauty of the Montana landscape, Sky is also a woman's search for herself and the truth of love.

Op een stralende zomerdag is Rose O'Beirne Moffat met haar honden aan het wandelen over het uitgestrekte landgoed van haar vader. Het is de dag voor haar zestiende verjaardag, de dag dat ze John Flynn, de leuke jongen van het poortwachtershuis, ontmoet. John leert haar vissen, en daarna kust hij haar... Enkele maanden later emigreert John door armoede gedwongen naar Canada, treurend om het beeldschone meisje dat hij in Ierland moet achterlaten. John weet niet dat hun enige gestolen liefdesnacht tragische gevolgen heeft voor Rose. Zwanger, vernederd en afgewezen door haar moeder, resten haar slechts bitterzoete herinneringen aan haar eerste liefde. Op weg naar Canada ontmoet John de onstuimige Karen Larsen. Zij weet John te verleiden en krijgt ook een kind van hem. Door een wrede speling van het lot ontmoeten de twee liefdeskinderen elkaar jaren later in Ierland. Onbewust van het feit dat zij dezelfde vader hebben, geven zij toe aan een fatale aantrekkingskracht...

Op een tiental mijlen voor de Ierse westkust komt een vliegtuig uit Chicago in een zware storm terecht en stort in de ijskoude, inktzwarte oceaan. Alle inzittenden komen om, op één na. De volgende ochtend, terwijl de eerste zonnestralen de rosten van het eilandje Inisheer bespelen, ontdekt Micheàl een bootje dat langzaam naar hem toe dobbert. In het reddingsbootje ligt, verpakt in een warme wollen deken, een baby zacht te huilen. Felblauwe oogjes kijken de visser boos en tegelijk nieuwsgierig aan. Micheàl besluit het kind, een meisje, mee naar huis te nemen. Hij kan niet voorzien welke enorme gevolgen dit zal hebben voor zijn eigen gezin. Een onmogelijke liefdesgeschiedenis ontwikkelt zich tijdens jaren van verwarring, droefheid en tenslotten intens geluk.