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Title Statement | Mummy darlings / Emily Hourican. |
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Series | Glorious Guinness girls novel |
Author | Hourican, Emily |
Publication | New York: Grand Central Publishing,2023.©2021 |
Edition | First U.S. edition. |
Extent of Item | viii, 501 pages ; |
ISBN | 9781538724507 (trade paperback) |
Other Number | pr06953615 |
General Notes | Includes reading group guide with discussion questions and author's Q&A. Originally published in 2021 by Hachette Books Ireland in Dublin, Ireland. |
Bibliography | Includes bibliographical references. |
Summary | "It's the dawn of the 1930s and the three privileged Guinness sisters, Aileen, Maureen and Oonagh, settle into becoming wives and mothers: Aileen in Luttrellstown Castle outside Dublin, Maureen in Clandeboye in Northern Ireland, and Oonagh in Rutland Place in London. But while Britain becomes increasingly politically polarized, Aileen, Maureen and Oonagh discover conflict within their own marriages. Oonagh's dream of romantic love is countered by her husband's lies; the intense nature of Maureen's marriage means passion, but also rows; while Aileen begins to discover that, for her, being married offers far less than she had expected. Meanwhile, Kathleen, a housemaid from their childhood home in Glenmaroon, travels between the three sisters, helping, listening, watching--even as her own life brings her into conflict with the clash between fascism and communism. As affairs are uncovered and secrets exposed, the three women begin to realize that their guiled upbringing could not have prepared them for the realities of married life, nor for the scandals that seem to follow them around"-- |
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By Topic | Married women--Fiction |
Motherhood--Fiction | |
Nineteen thirties--Fiction | |
Scandals--Fiction | |
Sisters--Fiction | |
Socialites--Fiction--England | |
Wealth--Fiction | |
By Location | Ireland--Fiction--Social life and customs--20th century |
London (England)--Fiction--Social life and customs--20th century | |
By Genre | Historical fiction |
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