The Secrets of Roscarbury Hall

✍ Scribed by O'Loughlin, Ann

• Book ID: 109198378
• Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 300 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

Secrets can't last forever in this heartfelt debut novel, a UK bestseller and contemporary Philomena story.
In a crumbling mansion in a small Irish village in County Wicklow, two elderly sisters, Ella and Roberta O'Callaghan, live alone with their secrets, memories, and mutual hatred. Long estranged by a dark family tragedy, they communicate only by terse notes. But when the sisters are threatened with bankruptcy, Ella defies Roberta's wishes and takes matters into her own hands, putting her baking skills to good use and converting the mansion's old ballroom into a café.
Much to Roberta's displeasure, the café is a hit and the sisters are reluctantly drawn back into the village life they abandoned decades ago. But gossip has a long life, and Ella finds herself reliving painful memories when Debbie, an American woman searching for her birth mother, begins working at the café. As the local convent comes under scrutiny, the O'Callaghan sisters find...