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The Trouble with Secrets
The Kilteegan Bridge Story (Book 1)
- Author
- Jean Grainger
- Narrator
- Siobhan Waring
- Publish Date
- 6 September 2022
- Run Time
- 7 hours 56 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Kilteegan Bridge, County Cork 1958
For eighteen-year-old Lena O’Sullivan, life is predictable and dull. A future of hard work, marriage to a local boy, and a family of her own one day is all she has to look forward to. People from her background know not to expect too much, but Lena yearns for something different.
Malachy Berger was different; for him, the world is at his feet. An only child of a wealthy if peculiar father, a large inheritance, a beautiful house, and a fine education are his due.
Nobody is in favor of Lena and Malachy’s friendship, but why not? What harm are they doing? Why is everyone so dead set against it?
Then fate takes a hand, and Lena realizes that secrets and lies have bound her and Malachy in an impossible situation. And their future seems determined by events that happened long before they were born.
From rural Ireland to post-war Cardiff, Lena and Malachy’s story winds its way back to wartime Germany and occupied France in a web of deceit that threatens to destroy them both.
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Details
- Author
- Jean Grainger
- Narrator
- Siobhan Waring
- Duration
- 7 hours 56 minutes
- Release Date
- 6 September 2022
- ISBN
- 9798212236089
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Historical fiction, Fiction: general and literary, Generational sagas
Synopsis
Kilteegan Bridge, County Cork 1958For eighteen-year-old Lena O’Sullivan, life is predictable and dull. A future of hard work, marriage to a local boy, and a family of her own one day is all she has to look forward to. People from her background know not to expect too much, but Lena yearns for something different.Malachy Berger was different; for him, the world is at his feet. An only child of a wealthy if peculiar father, a large inheritance, a beautiful house, and a fine education are his due.Nobody is in favor of Lena and Malachy’s friendship, but why not? What harm are they doing? Why is everyone so dead set against it?Then fate takes a hand, and Lena realizes that secrets and lies have bound her and Malachy in an impossible situation. And their future seems determined by events that happened long before they were born.From rural Ireland to post-war Cardiff, Lena and Malachy’s story winds its way back to wartime Germany and occupied France in a web of deceit that threatens to destroy them both.
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