| Edition |
First North American edition. |
| Description |
322 pages ; 22 cm |
| Summary |
"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 cafés 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 themselves caught up in an adoption scandal that dates back to the 1960s and spreads all the way across the Atlantic Ocean. Only by overcoming their enmity and facing up to the past can they face the future together--but can they finally put their differences behind them?"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Note |
"First published by Black & White Publishing Ltd in the United Kingdom under the title The ballroom cafe"--Title page verso. |
| Subject |
Sisters -- Ireland -- Fiction.
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Older women -- Ireland -- Fiction.
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Family secrets -- Fiction.
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Adoptees -- Fiction.
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Adoption -- Corrupt practices -- Fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Domestic fiction.
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| Added Title |
Ballroom café
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| ISBN |
9781510713727 (hardcover) |
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1510713727 (hardcover) |
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