WINNER OF THE AUTHORS' CLUB BEST FIRST NOVEL AWARD
__________________________________________________ 'Fresh entertaining funny and moving'
RODDY DOYLE 'A touching tale of how one woman survives a tough beginning to eventually end up
exactly where her heart belongs' ANNE GRIFFIN author of When All is Said
__________________________________________________ 'If I could go back to being sixteen again
I'd do things differently.' 'Everyone over the age of forty feels like that you total gom '
says my best friend Lizzie Magee. When she was young Mary Rattigan wanted to fly. She was going
to take off like an angel from heaven and leave the muck and madness of troubled Northern
Ireland behind. Nothing but the Land of Happy Ever After would do for her. But as a Catholic
girl with a B.I.T.C.H. for a Mammy and a silent Daddy things did not go as she and Lizzie
Magee had planned. Now five children twenty-five years an end to the bombs and bullets
enough whiskey to sink a ship and endless wakes and sandwich teas later Mary's alone. She's
learned plenty of hard lessons and missed a hundred steps towards the life she'd always hoped
for. Will she finally find the courage to ask for the love she deserves? Or is it too late?
