The Tarabeg
3 primary works
Book 1
Tarabeg is a small village on the West Coast of Ireland. In the aftermath of the Second World War, two women are waiting there for ambitious Michael Malone to return home.
Rosie is the local schoolteacher and most people think she is promised to him. Just a few have guessed that he has secretly begun to woo Sarah, whose brutal fisherman father would kill her if he knew.
Both Rosie and Sarah love Michael, both hope to become his wife and their lives will interweave in a tale of tangled secrets, old promises and new feuds. Michael Malone's choice will have fateful consequences for everyone – especially, in due course, for his young daughter.
This is the first in a new sequence of novels with a brilliant cast of characters and a story that will lead to Liverpool in Mary Kate and back to Ireland in The Velvet Ribbon.
Book 2
Bookish Jottings. Liverpool, 1963.
Mary Kate Malone is seventeen and bitterly unhappy that her father has married again after the death of her mother. On her last day at school, she decides to leave home in Tarabeg on the west coast of Ireland and head for Liverpool to find her mother's sister.
But absolutely nothing goes to plan. Within hours of disembarking, she finds herself penniless and alone, with no place to stay and no idea how she will survive.
Meanwhile, back in Ireland, where old sins cast long shadows, a long-buried secret is about to come to light and a day of reckoning, in the shape of a stranger from America, will set an unstoppable chain of events in motion.
What readers are saying about the Tarabeg Series:
'A brilliant read, a wonderful story and I have already pre-orderd the next book'
'Great read! Nadine Dorries is a top author, love her books!'
'Did not want it to end!! Gripping, detailed... Really draws you in to the story
Book 3
A forbidden love... A vengeful wife...
Mary Kate Malone has come to Liverpool from Ireland to seek her fortune, but from the very beginning, things have gone horribly wrong. Now she longs to flee back to her family in Ireland.
But Tarabeg isn't the place Mary Kate remembers anymore. A charismatic American has arrived with plans to change everything and Mary Kate hates him on sight. Worse still, the lies she has told about her Liverpool life are about to come back to haunt her.
Don't miss the final book in the Tarabeg trilogy, concluding the story of extraordinary heroine Mary Kate.What readers are saying about the Tarabeg Series:
'A brilliant read, a wonderful story and I have already pre-orderd the next book'
'Great read! Nadine Dorries is a top author, love her books!'
'Did not want it to end!! Gripping, detailed ... Really draws you in to the story'