The Secrets of Roscarbury Hall, Ann OLoughlin
The Secrets of Roscarbury Hall, Ann OLoughlin
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The Secrets of Roscarbury Hall

Author: Ann O'Loughlin

Narrator: Anne Flosnik

Unabridged: 8 hr 20 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 06/13/2017

Categories: Fiction, Family Life


Synopsis

Secrets can’t last forever in this heartfelt debut novel, a UK bestseller and contemporary Philomena story.

In a crumbling mansion in a small Irish village in County Wicklow, two elderly sisters, Ella and Roberta O’Callaghan, live alone in Roscarbury Hall with their secrets, memories, and mutual hatred. Long estranged by a dark family tragedy, the two 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 café.

Much to Roberta’s displeasure, the café is 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 café. 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.

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About Ann O'Loughlin

Ann is the Irish author of five novels and has been translated into eleven languages. Her first novel The Ballroom Cafe was also an ebook bestseller and in the top 20 bestselling books of 2015 on Amazon UK. Ann loves to write and often gets up at 5am to get the words down, before starting her other job of writing as a news reporter. A leading journalist in Ireland, Ann has covered all major news events in a long career with Independent Newspapers, Ireland. She is now a senior journalist with the Irish Examiner specialising in legal issues. Ann has also lived in India. Originally from the west of Ireland she now lives on the east coast with her husband and family.


Reviews

3.5 stars Two estranged, elderly sisters, a well-worn period home that is in need of major renovation and a lifetime of secrets. A recipe for historical fiction. But, along with these storylines, there is the added tale of forced and hidden adoption in Ireland going back decades. It may sound like fi......more

Goodreads review by Nina

Зад привидно лежерното заглавие на тази книга, се крият доста тежки и противоречиви събития. За голямо съжаление, авторката не успя да ме убеди и да ми въздейства. Чете се лесно , но е наблегнала на ненужни детайли и дребнотемие, а истински важните неща , някак са сбутани накрая и разказани между друг......more

Goodreads review by Camie

A quaint book about two elderly sisters in Ireland trying to stay in their crumbling old family estate Roscarbury Hall. When a successful tea room Cafe is opened in the ballroom the sisters who have a long standing feud between them are thrust into the limelight and become the talk of the village. T......more