Rural Irish girl Ellie loves living in New York, working as a lady's maid for a wealthy socialite. She tries to persuade her husband, John, to join her but he is embroiled in his affairs in Ireland, and caught up in the civil war. Nevertheless Ellie is extremely happy and fully embraces her sophisticated new life. When her father dies she must return home, but she intends to sort her affairs quickly and then return to her beloved America.
But once home her sense of duty kicks in and she decides, painfully, that she must stay to look after her mother and resume her marriage. Ellie is suddenly thrown into the simple, rural life she believed she had grown out of...
- ISBN10 0062071548
- ISBN13 9780062071545
- Publish Date 28 June 2011 (first published 2 October 2009)
- Publish Status Temporarily Withdrawn
- Imprint William Morrow & Company
- Format eBook
- Pages 368
- Language English