Cathy Kelly

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Newsletter Feature: New Book!

Posted on 18 Dec 2009

It’s hailstoning here in Co. Wicklow. Snow is fine but I can live without hailstones. They’re sort of vindictive, aren’t they? I’m in my study working on my twelfth book. I should be writing Christmas cards or trying to find where I’ve hidden the presents (I am so good at concealing things, that I can’t find them myself) but I have to finish this book.

It’s due out in Autumn 2010, it’s called Homecoming and this is what it’s about…
 
Golden Square is a pretty Victorian garden square tucked away in the city, where a group of women live side-by-side. Rae Kerrigan, mother of three grown-up sons, runs the square's tearooms, Titania's Palace.
 
Connie O Callaghan, a good-humoured teacher who lives with her younger sister, has a vision of the perfect man that no real man could ever live up to. Everyone believes that she's professionally single, but if so, why does she curl up with romantic novels at night in a pink bedroom bedecked with fairy lights?
 
Into this settled world arrive two new residents: Mrs. Levine, a mysterious elderly American lady and Megan Flynn, a beautiful, young British actress who has just had an affair with the married star of her latest movie. Like magic, their arrival signals huge change for all of the women in Golden Square.
 
Well, that's what it's about now. I'm finishing it and you never know what mad figary (don't you love that word?) will come over me and I'll change it all.
 
Once in A Lifetime (Downtown Press, $16.00) is being published in the US on January 5th. I'm so thrilled because it was such a lovely book to write. I hope you like it folks. And do tell me what you think.


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