Before The Fall, Orna Ross
Before The Fall, Orna Ross
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Before The Fall
Centenary Edition

Author: Orna Ross

Narrator: Adena Cahill

Unabridged: 7 hr 45 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/20/2022

Synopsis

What happens when a woman is haunted by the sins of her foremothers--and the men who betrayed them? Facing the birth of her child, and single motherhood, Jo Devereux has spent the last six months in Mucknamore, the small hometown that she ran from twenty years ago, investigating her family's troubled past.A trunk of letters and diaries left by her grandmother and great- aunt reveals a heartbreaking legacy of bitter secrets - secrets that have haunted the women in her family for four generations.  Now she must find out the ultimate truth: Who really killed her great uncle? What secrets and lies lay under her mother's and grandmother's unshakeable silence? And then there is Rory... her childhood love and the son of her family's sworn enemies. Could Jo's mission to uncover the truth be the key to a possible future together? Or will it be their undoing? As she pieces together the poisonous fragments of the past, Jo must now face up to what knowing the truth means for her future-- or risk losing everything all over again.Read this haunting, heartbreaking saga of love, loss, and secrets in a country and a family ravaged by all kinds of intimate war. 

Reviews

Goodreads review by Lindsay♫SingerOfStories♫

I actually enjoyed this book more than the first. It delved into so many more issues--the gay community, AIDS, marital and familial struggles, mental institutionalization, feminism, immigration and racism. And oh, I thought I cried when reading the first book, I cried more here. I predicted the patr......more

Goodreads review by Colin

In 1995, pregnant Jo Devereux is still living in Ireland. Caught between her relationship with former lover Rory and the desire to return home to San Francisco, Jo battles with the past and its possible impact on her future, as she unravels her family’s possible involvement in the death of Rory’s gr......more

Goodreads review by LindyLouMac

It worked well reading this immediately after finishing 'After The Rising' 'After the Rising' as it follows on with events in Mucknamore seamlessly continuing the modern day (1995) story of Jo Devereux, who is still in Ireland researching into the family history and trying to deal with her feelings......more

Goodreads review by Barb

Layers of stories about women who face the struggles in Ireland, the relationships those struggles create and destroy, and the women lives that evolve from that history. There is more than one story being told here but the women are related which I think makes reading the book more compelling. I am......more

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