A tale of emigration from Ireland to America after the Famine. In 1877 young Johanna McNamara leaves her quiet life on the family farm and emigrates to America to join her successful businessman brother Hugh. Full of hope, she is determined to make a success of her life. However, tragedy strikes before she finds her feet in this new world, and she must put the care of others before her own needs. Back in Ireland, farming life for the family continues through the seasons, with her brother Art struggling to deal with his troubled son Declan. Sending him to the USA is an option that might help turn him into a man. Little does Johanna know what lies ahead, with the arrival of a nephew whose act of betrayal will blow her life apart. Set in Ireland, Boston, San Francisco and Nova Scotia, Lives Apart explores the experience of emigration, both for those who had the courage to venture across the Atlantic and those they left behind.

Lives Apart: A family saga of betrayal, tragedy and survival. (The Lives Trilogy)

Literature & Fiction

McLoughlin, Anne M.

Genre Fiction

Poolbeg Press

An emotional tale of family secrets spanning three generations. Mary Ann survives the Irish Potato Famine of the 1840s and lives on to become matriarch of the McNamara family. This solid rock of a woman is the person they all turn to when in need of refuge, understanding, and a dose of wisdom. What they don't know is that for many years Mary Ann has been hiding a heartache of her own. Her granddaughter, beautiful but emotionally fragile Bridie, full of hope and courage, survives a life of hard knocks. Emigrating from Ireland, she builds a new life in Boston. Following an affair that would rock society were it to be discovered, she is forced into making a heart-breaking decision. She returns home to Ireland with her arsenal of secrets, in her search for peace and the meaning of life. Hidden lives, memories of the past - who knows what lies beneath the surface we present to the world?

Lives Without End (The Lives Trilogy)

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Lives Reunited: An Irish family saga (The Lives Trilogy)

Literary

Lives Apart: An Irish family saga of betrayal, tragedy and survival: 1 (The Lives Trilogy)

Poolbeg Press Ltd.

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