Overview
Murderous secrets and lost love in Dublin during the Great Famine In Dublin 1849, wealth contrasts savagely with squalid poverty, the bitter injustices of the Great Famine create a generation of the dispossessed, and hospitals are overwhelmed with pandemic disease. Deaths haunt every street, but some are not due to natural causes: patients who should have recovered are dying, and a violent gang murders in plain sight. Jane, a theatrical pianist, has married Edmond Verity, a celebrated actor. When they perform in Dublin, her former lover, Dr William Doughty, knows he ought to keep his distance. When Edmond, a gambler struggling with his demons, becomes ill, he finds a physician whose first passion is his racing stable. As Jane's fortunes reverse, she must find a way to survive. Exploring a pivotal epoch in Irish history, this is an intricate novel of music and medicine, of trust and trickery, of destructive secrets and lost love: compelling, intriguing and poignant.
- | Author: Maybelle Wallis
- | Publisher: Poolbeg Press
- | Publication Date: Aug 18, 2022
- | Number of Pages: 400 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 1781994749
- | ISBN-13: 9781781994740
