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Deirdre Purcell Books In Order

Novels

  1. A Place of Stones (1991)
  2. That Childhood Country (1992)
  3. Falling for a Dancer (1993)
  4. Francey (1994)
  5. Ashes of Roses (1994)
  6. Sky (1996)
  7. Roses After Rain (1996)
  8. Love Like Hate Adore (1997)
  9. Entertaining Ambrose (2000)
  10. Marble Gardens (2002)
  11. Last Summer in Arcadia (2003)
  12. Children of Eve (2004)
  13. Tell Me Your Secret (2006)
  14. Days We Remember (2008)
  15. Pearl (2010)
  16. The Winter Gathering (2013)
  17. The Husband (2016)
  18. The Christmas Voyage (2017)
  19. Grace in Winter (2019)

Omnibus

  1. A Place of Stones / Sky (2002)
  2. Falling for the Dancer / Love Like Hate Adore (2003)

Non fiction

  1. Diamonds and Holes in My Shoes (2006)
  2. Follow Me Down to Dublin (2007)
  3. Aengus Finucane (2014)

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Deirdre Purcell Books Overview

A Place of Stones

Seeking her fame and fortune in Dublin, small town Irish woman Molly O’Brien finds herself torn between the love of the American who breaks down her defenses and the Irishman whom it is a sin to desire.

That Childhood Country

In the cemetery set into the hills above Drumboola in Ireland, a figure squats over one of the graves, working with a hammer and chisel, hacking off a name engraved on one of the tombstones. The events which led to this scene began two decades before. The author also wrote ‘A Place of Stones’.

Falling for a Dancer

If the bus hadn’t broken down that August afternoon on the road between Dublin and Cork, Elizabeth Sullivan would never have met George Gallaher, a travelling actor of infinite charm and fatal weakness. She would not have been forced to marry, nor found herself trapped in an alien landscape.

Francey

For almost two decades Francey Sullivan has fantasized about his absent actor father, George Gallagher. The urge to contact his father becomes an obsession. When he finally traces him, he also finds Francey‘s half brother Mannering, and his mysterious wife Fleur.

Ashes of Roses

Remembering her uncontrollable passion in the arms of a handsome worldly man who broke her heart, Elizabeth Sullivan seeks for release outside of her unfulfilling marriage and learns the painful price of forbidden desire.

Love Like Hate Adore

What happens if your brother is accused of rape? Through her narrator, Angela Devine, the author defends against intense media and public pressure on a young male in a date rape case.

Marble Gardens

Sophie and Riba have known each other since childhood. Though they couldn’t be more different Sophie is elegant and diffident, while Riba is flamboyantly extrovert the bond between them seems unbreakable. Then Riba’s teenaged daughter Zelda falls gravely ill. Frustrated by the limitations of conventional medicine, Riba pins all her hopes on alternative methods. Sophie is torn between her loyalty to her friend and her fear that Zelda, whom she loves like the child she cannot have, will not get the help she desperately needs. United in their distress, Sophie and Riba’s husband Brian find themselves drawn to each other. Time is running out for Zelda, for two marriages, and for a friendship…

Last Summer in Arcadia

The tension is palpable as Tess and Jerry Brennan sit in the drawing room of their wonderful house high above the sea, waiting for the police to arrive. Tess is facing the consequences of her own actions, innocently undertaken but devastating in their outcome; Jerry has been caught out in a misdemeanour, a transgression men have made since time began but one that in his case has repercussions that will mean the end of a successful career. Adding to Tess’s agitation is the knowledge that her two best friends are facing parallel traumas of their own. Life skated along for the three couples until last summer when they all travelled to the village of Collioure in the south of France. Now they have everything to lose: their marriages, their family lives, and their friendships.

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