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Author:

O'Loughlin, Ann.

Title:

The secrets of Roscarbury Hall : a novel / Ann O'Loughlin.

Edition:

1st North American ed.

Publisher:

Skyhorse Pub.,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

p. cm.

Subject:

Sisters--Ireland--Fiction.
Older women--Ireland--Fiction.
Family secrets--Fiction.
Adoptees--Fiction.
Adoption--Corrupt practices--Fiction.
Domestic fiction.
FICTION / Family Life.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Adoption & Fostering.

Other Titles:

Ballroom caf©♭

Summary:

"In a crumbling mansion in a small Irish village in County Wicklow, two elderly sisters, Ella and Roberta O'Callaghan, live alone with their secrets, memories, and mutual hatred. Long estranged by a dark family tragedy, they communicate only by terse notes. But when the sisters are threatened with bankruptcy, Ella defies Roberta's wishes and takes matters into her own hands, putting her baking skills to good use and converting the mansion's old ballroom into a caf©♭. Much to Roberta's displeasure, the caf©♭s a hit and the sisters are reluctantly drawn back into the village life they abandoned decades ago. But gossip has a long life, and Ella finds herself reliving painful memories when Debbie, an American woman searching for her birth mother, begins working at the caf©♭. As the local convent comes under scrutiny, the O'Callaghan sisters find themselves caught up in an adoption scandal that dates back to the 1960s and spreads all the way across the Atlantic Ocean. Only by overcoming their enmity and facing up to the past can they face the future together--but can they finally put their differences behind them? An emotionally rich story with flashes of humor, gossip, and tragedy, The Secrets of Roscarbury Hall is a moving debut novel of love both lost and found"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

1510713727
9781510713727 (hardback)

LCCN:

2016020183

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

MNPB553 -- Bancroft Public Library (Bancroft)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

VQPC384 -- Reinbeck Public Library (Reinbeck)