Category: Adults, Historical Fiction
Language: EnglishKeywords: Ireland Irish Literature
Written by Catherine Airey
Read by Eileen O’Higgins, Bronagh Waugh, Ruby Campbell, Skye Bennett, Catherine Airey, Kwaku Fortune
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged
For fans of The Goldfinch and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, a mesmerizing and absorbing debut that follows three generations of women from New York to rural Ireland and back again.
New York City, late September 2001. The walls of the city are papered over with photos of the missing. Cora Bradyâs father is there, the poster she made taped to columns and bridges. When a letter arrives from an aunt she didnât know existed in Ireland with the offer of a new life, the name jogs a memory: an old videocassette game Cora used to play as a child where two sisters must save the students of a mysterious boarding school.
County Donegal, 1974. An eclectic group of artists known as the Screamers arrives in Burtonport and moves into the old schoolhouse down the road from where RóisÃn lives with her older sister Máire. Alternately kind and cruel, brilliant artist Máire is a mystery to RóisÃn, as is Máireâs relationship with the boy next door, Michael. When the Screamers look to hire an artist in residence, RóisÃn enlists Michaelâs help to get Máire the job, setting in motion a chain of events that will put an ocean between the sisters and threaten to tear them apart forever.
Burtonport, 2018. Lyca Brady lives in a sprawling old house with her mother, Cora, and great aunt, Ro. Abortion has just been legalized in Ireland, and Lyca is struggling to find herself outside her motherâs activism. An unexpected message from a childhood friend sends Lyca searching her houseâs mysterious attic, with its strange collection of old medical equipment, piles of paperwork, and dusty boxes of ancient video games. There, she unearths secrets hidden for decadesâsecrets perhaps better left unknown.
Catherine Aireyâs haunting debut spins a mesmerizing story of family and fate, survival and revelation, examining the irresistible gravity of the pastâhow it endures through generations, pervasively present even when buried or forgotten.
Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
Release date: 01-14-25
For fans of The Goldfinch and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, a mesmerizing and absorbing debut that follows three generations of women from New York to rural Ireland and back again.
New York City, late September 2001. The walls of the city are papered over with photos of the missing. Cora Bradyâs father is there, the poster she made taped to columns and bridges. When a letter arrives from an aunt she didnât know existed in Ireland with the offer of a new life, the name jogs a memory: an old videocassette game Cora used to play as a child where two sisters must save the students of a mysterious boarding school.
County Donegal, 1974. An eclectic group of artists known as the Screamers arrives in Burtonport and moves into the old schoolhouse down the road from where RóisÃn lives with her older sister Máire. Alternately kind and cruel, brilliant artist Máire is a mystery to RóisÃn, as is Máireâs relationship with the boy next door, Michael. When the Screamers look to hire an artist in residence, RóisÃn enlists Michaelâs help to get Máire the job, setting in motion a chain of events that will put an ocean between the sisters and threaten to tear them apart forever.
Burtonport, 2018. Lyca Brady lives in a sprawling old house with her mother, Cora, and great aunt, Ro. Abortion has just been legalized in Ireland, and Lyca is struggling to find herself outside her motherâs activism. An unexpected message from a childhood friend sends Lyca searching her houseâs mysterious attic, with its strange collection of old medical equipment, piles of paperwork, and dusty boxes of ancient video games. There, she unearths secrets hidden for decadesâsecrets perhaps better left unknown.
Catherine Aireyâs haunting debut spins a mesmerizing story of family and fate, survival and revelation, examining the irresistible gravity of the pastâhow it endures through generations, pervasively present even when buried or forgotten.
Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
Release date: 01-14-25