Frances Paiges fesselnde Erzählungen tauchen in das Herz menschlicher Erfahrungen ein und verweben komplexe Handlungsstränge mit einem unverwechselbaren und ansprechenden Prosa-Stil. Ihre produktive Arbeit erkundet zeitlose Themen und lädt die Leser in reichhaltig gestaltete Welten ein. Paiges Meisterschaft liegt in ihrer Fähigkeit, nachklingende Geschichten zu schaffen, die lange nach der letzten Seite nachwirken. Ihre Arbeit hat sie als bedeutende Stimme in der zeitgenössischen Literatur etabliert.
This is the concluding volume of the McGrath saga. Ginny McGrath has come from the US to run her aunt Lizzie's hotel in the former Sholton Hall. World War I is over and the roaring 1920s are in full swing, but Ginny finds that there is not enough freedom to give her the man she loves.
More than sixty years have passed since young Maeve Muldoon eloped from Ireland with her father's groom, Kieran McGrath, to start a new life in the Scottish mining village of Sholton. Their children and grandchildren have spread far and wide and the business they founded, the McGrath Carting Company, is now an international concern. Maeve's death in 1914 spells the end of an era and leaves a huge gap in the ranks of the McGrath clan. But sisters Kate, Isobel and Maevy are the new unifying force in this remarkable family. As the shadow of conflict reaches across the Channel, the lives of the younger generation are changed for ever in the crucible of war - as love, duty and sacrifice wach make a claim on their hearts.
In this third volume of the McGrath saga, the younger generation spread their wings in the dawning freedom of the new twentieth century. Rich in passion, drama and atmosphere, its characters as real as the rolling countryside they inhabit, The Distaff Side is a moving saga of love and loss, of joy and despair, that follows the fortunes of the McGraths through Scotland, America, France and Ireland. New readers will discover one of the truly great family sagas, while those familiar with the earlier books will be delighted to meet again old and much-loved friends.
Young Maeve Muldoon eloped from Ireland with Kieran McGrath.
When the Boer War began, the McGrath family already had troubles enough of their own, Terence's marriage to prim Catherine was drawing to a tragic close, whilst Patrick and Maria suffered the sadness of a frail, mentally handicapped child--and young Maeve had to choose between her career as a nurse and her heart's deepest desires. Most worrying of all was the future of little Lizzie, Terence's love-child, brought up in ignorance of per parentage by John and Isabel....