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Authors: Martina Devlin
Tags: #Women's Fiction, #Literary Fiction, #Fantasy
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Also by Martina Devlin
The House Where it Happened
It is 1711, and the Ulster-Scots community in a remote corner of Ireland is in turmoil. A pretty young newcomer is accusing one woman after another of witchcraft. But Ellen, the serving girl in the house where the visitor is staying, is loyal to the family – and over-fond of her master.
Yet she knows that Knowehead is a
house like no other.
And so she watches and ponders, as a seemingly normal girl claims she is bewitched – as a community turns against eight respectable women – and as malevolent forces unleashed more than half a century earlier threaten a superstitious people beyond
their understanding.
Martina Devlin has fictionalised a compelling episode from history, transforming it into a spine-chilling tale.
Praise for
The House Where It Happened
“Martina Devlin is an immensely skilled storyteller and I was utterly gripped by this book’s power. Its sulfurous shadows and air of suppressed menace
remind you that the author of
Wuthering Heights
had Ulster blood, like Devlin” –
Joseph O’Connor
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Praise for
The House Where It Happened
“An immensely skilled storyteller and I was utterly gripped by this book’s power”
Joseph O’Connor
“This is a creepy, absorbing tale. The eerie world of Knowehead House is vivid and convincing, layered with authentic detail and lit by striking turns of phrase. Martina Devlin has given us scenes we want to look away from but can’t, a whiff of the past that lifts from the page and stays with you, once the story’s told”
Lia Mills
“Absorbing”
Irish Times
“Compelling”
Sunday Business Post
“A cracking good story”
Irish Examiner
“A memorable and spirited narrator”
Irish Independent
“Gorgeously atmospheric and gripping . . . meticulously researched”
Claudia Carroll
,
Irish Daily Mail
“Brilliant”
Belfast Telegraph
“An astonishing achievement . . . a wealth of scholarship and research”
Nell McCafferty
“Completely bewitched”
The Sunday World
“Great read, a proper ghost story based on real events and research”
Susan Lanigan, author
“A novel that grips onto you tightly from the outset”
Claire Savage, Culture Northern Ireland
“One of my favourite books last year, absolutely loved it”
Lisa Redmond of LisaReadsBooks
“Recommended”
Margaret B Madden, BleachHouseLibrary
Ship Of Dreams
A group of people meet on one of the Titanic's lifeboats, saved from death by random chance. These survivors, from different nationalities and walks of life, have only one factor in common: all have survived a tragedy that captures the world’s imagination. This thread binds them together when they are rescued and taken to New York.
Two of the survivors are Irish emigrants hoping to make a new life for themselves. Both have a secret: one is carrying a baby and the other has buried a baby.
Also on board is a beautiful American girl who has scaled New York society to marry the heir to a hotel fortune. But her gilded life is threatened when he drowns. Then there is the French gentleman’s secretary with ambitions to better himself, a US Cavalry officer convinced his dead wife intervened to rescue him, and an English teacher plucked from the sea by the Irish girls.
Certainties have been shattered and life in the Titanic’s wake can never be the same again…
Temptation
One lesson Kitty Kennedy has taken from her two marriages is that not all men and women are meant to live together . . . forever.
Alone again on New Year's Day, Kitty is inspired with the ideal New Year's resolution - to become somebody's mistress. Except finding the right candidate proves trickier than she expects.
Sunny, Kitty's sister, always makes sure she never spends New Year alone. But men are only a diversion while the actress pursues her real goal, a Hollywood career.
Kitty's best friend Rose thought love was a foregone conclusion until her fiancé realised he couldn't devote his life to her. Or to any woman. Rose longs to risk loving once more when she meets a younger man . . . but fear is holding her back.
For Kitty, Sunny and Rose, giving in to temptation may be their only chance of paradise.
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