In Ireland, a wife fakes a suicide by drowning and takes off with a pharmacist for London. Years later, after establishing herself in business, she longs for news of her daughter, now a teenager. She writes a letter, signing herself a friend of the mother and a correspondence develops. Now she is dying to see her, but dare she? By the author of Circle of Friends.

Two women--one American, the other Irish-- trade houses for the summer and the resulting change of scenery helps them remake their lives. The American is Marilyn of Connecticut, mourning the death of her son, the Irish woman is Ria of Dublin, a mother of two, whose husband had an affair and made the woman pregnant. By the author of The Glass Lake.

Brewer's Dictionary of Irish Phrase and Fable is an entirely new 'Brewer's' dedicated to the history, culture and mythology of the 'Emerald Isle'. Its authors have sifted through a huge amount of folkloric, mythological, literary and historical material to compile a stunningly eclectic array of 6000 entries on a wide range of Irish-related topics, including words, phrases, names, titles, people, events and places - all of them intriguing and informative,...