Homecoming
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4.2 • 66 Ratings
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- $16.99
Publisher Description
The Sunday Times No. 1 paperback bestseller.
…because it’s where the heart is.
Four women. Four lives. One place they call home.
Eleanor Levine left Ireland years ago with just a suitcase and her mother’s recipe book. And now, a lifetime later, she returns from New York for Dublin’s beautiful Golden Square full of hard-won wisdom. As she watches life unfold from her window, she is drawn into the lives of the women who live in the square…
Beautiful actress Megan Bouchier had fame and success in her grasp – then she made the wrong kind of headlines. Now she needs a place to hide.
Big-hearted teacher Connie O’Callaghan is approaching forty and has given up on love. Why does no man match the heroes in her romantic novels?
Rae is a loyal friend and wife, dispensing tea and sympathy from Titania’s Tea Room – until a secret threatens everything she holds dear…
Rae is a loyal friend and wife, dispensing tea and sympathy from Titania’s Tea Room – until a secret threatens everything she holds dear…
Reviews
‘Warm, lyrical, fascinating and comforting…genius!’ Marian Keyes
‘Homecoming is an absolutely fabulous read, a warm, touching, funny and poignant page-turner’ Irish Independent
‘A cracking novel that ticks all the emotional boxes’ Woman & Home
About the author
Cathy Kelly is a number 1 bestselling author around the world. She worked as a journalist before becoming a novelist, and has published 13 bestselling books.
She is also an ambassador for UNICEF in Ireland. She lives in Wicklow with her partner and their twin sons.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Kelly (Lessons in Heartbreak) finds some life in the familiar setup of strangers brought together by fate to deal with tough luck. Eleanor Levine, an Irish-born, New York bred psychologist in the twilight of her life, heads to Dublin after her husband dies; Megan Bouchier, a famous actress, lands there after her fling with an older, married actor is splashed across the tabloids. Already living in Dublin's Golden Square are two additional souls in pain: Rae Kerrigan, who runs a charming tea room and mourns the baby girl she gave up four decades earlier, and teacher Connie O'Callaghan, whose loneliness is underscored when her younger sister and roommate gets engaged and quickly married. The four come together in a series of believable real-life ways, and as the stories intersect and their lives become intertwined, each woman sure before meeting the others that life as they knew it was over comes to believe that there is a purpose and a plan for everything. Given the familiar terrain, it would have been easy for Kelly to drift into clich ; what she has done instead is create a thoughtful panorama of four women doing their best to soldier on through tough times.
