Orphans and Strangers

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Defying his family’s wishes, William falls for Margaret, a Catholic nurse, and is cast out for marrying her. Desperate to reclaim his mother’s love, he joins the army, seeking the respect afforded to the American GIs stationed in Fermanagh. But war leaves him volatile, and his time as a POW scars him deeply. Tragedy strikes again and again: his wife succumbs to TB, and his beloved daughter drowns. Consumed by grief and paranoia, William makes a devastating choice, abandoning his daughter Trisha with his sister and fleeing to England with his son, George. Years later, George, burning for revenge, draws them both into the heart of the Troubles.

Gemma Hill is the author of The Twins’ Twins, her first well-received and well-read fictional novel. A storyteller, poet, and playwright, she has a way of crafting plots and creating characters that tempt the reader to stay up all night and read her novels. A retired lecturer in Communication, Social Science, and Health and Social Care, she loves nothing better than penning stories, long and short, that have a strong element of fiction based on her own life experiences and upbringing in Co Donegal as the fifth daughter of a small shopkeeper and café owner parents in a market town in Ireland.