The forgotten secret / Kathleen McGurl.

By: McGurl, Kathleen [author]Material type: TextTextPublisher: Leicester [England] : Thorpe, Charnwood, 2020Edition: Large print editionDescription: 384 pages (large print) ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781444843927; 1444843923Subject(s): Separated women -- Fiction | Family secrets -- Fiction | Ireland -- History -- War of Independence, 1919-1921 -- FictionGenre/Form: Large type books. Summary: It's the summer of 1919, and Ellen O'Brien has her whole life ahead of her. Young, in love, and leaving home for her first job, the future seems full of shining possibility. But war is brewing, and before long, Ellen and everyone around her are swept up by it. As Ireland is torn apart by the turmoil, Ellen finds herself facing the ultimate test of love and loyalty... A hundred years later, Clare Farrell has inherited a dilapidated old farmhouse in County Meath. Seizing the chance to escape her unhappy marriage, she strikes out on her own, hoping the old building might also tell her something about her family's shadowy history. And when she stumbles across a long-forgotten hiding place, she discovers a clue to a secret that has lain buried for decades...
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It's the summer of 1919, and Ellen O'Brien has her whole life ahead of her. Young, in love, and leaving home for her first job, the future seems full of shining possibility. But war is brewing, and before long, Ellen and everyone around her are swept up by it. As Ireland is torn apart by the turmoil, Ellen finds herself facing the ultimate test of love and loyalty... A hundred years later, Clare Farrell has inherited a dilapidated old farmhouse in County Meath. Seizing the chance to escape her unhappy marriage, she strikes out on her own, hoping the old building might also tell her something about her family's shadowy history. And when she stumbles across a long-forgotten hiding place, she discovers a clue to a secret that has lain buried for decades...

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