Young writer Sarah A. Steed takes you through the eyes of a young girl; Susan Douglas. She is a follower of Jesus Christ and knows about the second coming of Christ. She is brave enough to follow God's plan and she fulfills Gods plan by asking to stay behind when Christ returns. Following God's plan
I Dream Alone
β Scribed by Walsh, Gabriel
- Book ID
- 109728822
- Publisher
- Poolbeg Press
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 181 KB
- Series
- Maggie's Breakfast 2
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781781991251
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Young Gabriel Walsh has been uprooted from his poverty-stricken life in Dublin and transplanted to a castle in Tarrytown, New York State. This reversal of fortune has come about through Margaret Burke Sheridan, a retired opera diva who in her prime sang at La Scala and was Puccini's favourite Madame Butterfly. Having met the boy at Dublin's Shelbourne Hotel where he worked as a waiter, Maggie persuaded her wealthy American patrons, Ruth and Emerson Axe, to become his guardians and take him to America.
In Tarrytown Castle Gabriel finds himself living in a kind of limbo, situated as he is somewhere between being family and servant, between Irish and American culture. He encounters new experiences such as going to high school, the theatre, the opera and meets and dines with many renowned figures in his new home. Gabriel soon discovers that his guardians have an ambition for him to inherit their highly successful financial business. His future reeks of wonderful...
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