In Dublin in 2001, Alison and Charlie await the birth of their first baby. But the birth of Charlie's son—whom he names Michael after his long-lost father—makes him begin to wonder about his past. When Alison stumbles across some old papers and effects belonging to his mother, the ball is set in motion. Meanwhile, Charlie's grandparents, Marie-Therese and Cormac, a sergeant in the local Garda, play out their courtship, marriage, and the birth of their son Michael, against the tense political atmosphere of Ireland in the 1920s.

Lindbergh's Legacy: A Novel

Literature & Fiction

HAYES, Katy

Literary

Orion Publishing

Arlene is a dried-up, but extremely successful Dublin theatrical agent, prone to drinking pints of whiskey and lying on her office floor a lot. She used to be married to Dick, 'Call me Richard', Whelan, now a big B-list personality, whom she wants to star in a play by her new discovery, up-and-coming waif Isobel Coole. But Isobel falls in love with Dick - not a meeting of minds - and the loveless Arlene is rescused from her barren existence by the man from the local deli, who has been making weird phone calls to her for months...Curtains wickedly explores the vanity, callowness but ultimately endearing fragility of human nature.

Curtains

Contemporary

Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group)

Phoenix

Phoenix House

Where Katy Hayes previous novel, Curtains, was set in the world of theatre, Gossip is set in the world of newspapers. Mary Jane is the gossip columnist of a leading Dublin newspaper, attending all the openings in skimpy frocks and high heels, keeping an eye on who's with whom and making up what she can't see. Well that's the by-line anyway. The truth is that Mary Jane is a man—40, unfit, endearingly incapable of keeping up with his wife, his physiotherapist, or even with the times. When Mary Jane reports on a sighting of a prominent Dublin businessman's extra-marital canoodlings, he doesn't expect to become embroiled in infidelity and murder.

Gossip

Humor & Satire

Orion Pub Co

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by HAYES, Katy. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Books by HAYES, Katy