At the heart of After the Voyage is an arranged marriage poisoned by well-intentioned lies. From different counties in Ireland, Maggie Qualter and Richard Terrett both sail to America as young adults in 1870 after surviving Ireland’s Great Hunger as children. Maggie works as a maid for a wealthy … [Read more...] about Featured Book: After the Voyage: An Irish American Story by Brenda Murphy
Featured Book: After the Voyage: An Irish American Story by Brenda Murphy
Maggie Qualter and Richard Terrett both sail to America as young adults in 1870, having survived Ireland’s Great Hunger as children. After the death of the young wife he loves passionately, Richard marries Maggie with the help of a deceptive go-between who brews trouble in their marriage that never … [Read more...] about Featured Book: After the Voyage: An Irish American Story by Brenda Murphy
Featured Book: Becoming Carlotta: A Biographical Novel by Brenda Murphy
Intensely shy, Hazel Tharsing learns to meet the world as the glamorous actress Carlotta Monterey, by far the greatest acting role of her twenty-year career. Her fierce determination to succeed in the theatre takes her from 1900 San Francisco to London, New York, and Paris, with marriages to a … [Read more...] about Featured Book: Becoming Carlotta: A Biographical Novel by Brenda Murphy
