Tara Hyland Książki

From the author of Daughters of Fortune comes a sweeping family drama that follows a mother and daughter through the poverty of post-WWII Ireland and London and into the glamour of 1950s Hollywood and beyond, revealing the ways in which family ties can never be broken.Tara Hyland is beloved by readers for her exquisite talent at weaving family sagas that journey through the rocky roads of secrets, lies, and betrayals, only to show that no challenge, no matter how difficult, can ever truly sever the bonds of love.The novel opens in 1946, when Franny Healy is a beautiful and spirited teenager living in the poverty of County Cork, Ireland. Franny wants nothing more than to escape to the excitement of London. But when she discovers she is pregnant, her boyfriend abandons her. Undeterred, Franny flees to the city, where she finds work as a nightclub performer. She shines onstage and is soon propelled into a life she’s only dreamed of, filled with Hollywood stars, glamorous parties, furs and fashion, plus a new husband—who must never know of the daughter she left behind in County Cork with her mother.

Fifteen years after the birth of her daughter, conceived after a brief affair, Katie O'Dwyer succumbs to cancer. Her daughter, Caitlin must go to England to live with the father she has never met. Over the years Caitlin and her half-sister's lives take them in many different directions, but you cannot escape the claims of family.

Zimske noći 1958. godine na pragu sirotišta Sestara milosrdnica ostavljeno je žensko novorođenče. Godinu dana kasnije filmska zvijezda Frances Fitzgerald stradava u automobilskoj nesreći... Svi sumnjaju da njezin imućni suprug o okolnostima tragičnog događaja zna više nego što je spreman priznati, ali ništa se ne uspijeva dokazati. Francesina prešućena kći Cara u odrasloj se dobi odlučuje posvetiti razotkrivanju tajne. Nakon teškoga djetinjstva u sirotištu, mlada žena postaje uspješna novinarka, ali stalno se bori s traumama iz mladosti, zbog kojih ne vjeruje nikome. Zaključivši da će pobijediti vlastite probleme tek ako uspije otkriti tajnu majčine smrti, Cara se daje u potragu za istinom i ne sluteći da bi je to moglo uništiti...