My Heart Went Walking, Sally Hanan
My Heart Went Walking, Sally Hanan
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My Heart Went Walking
An Irish tale of love, loss, and redemption

Author: Sally Hanan

Narrator: Sally Hanan

Unabridged: 8 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/05/2022


Synopsis

It's 1984 in the west of Ireland, and two sisters have unwittingly betrayed each other.Set against the sweeping landscape of rural Ireland and Dublin City in the 1980s, My Heart Went Walking follows Una, who gives up everything to protect the people she loves, and her sister Ellie, who is left behind to pick up the pieces.Una runs away from her home and family in Donegal to start over in the "big smoke" of Dublin City, leaving a bereft family and the love of her life - Cullen - looking for answers. A year later, wondering if it might be safe to go back, she comes face-to-face with the heartbreaking reality that if she does so, she'll ruin her sister Ellie's newfound happiness with Cullen.Una stays away and processes her pain alone while building a new life for herself with help from an unexpected source ... until tragedy strikes and she must go home, where the secrets she has fought so hard to keep could destroy all their lives.My Heart Went Walking will take you back to the '80s and pull you in to the Irish approach to life - that of grit and laughter - and leave you with an overriding reminder of the possibility of hope and restoration in all things.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Terrie

"My Heart Went Walking" by Sally Hanan is a debut novel! Una Gallagher tells her mam she's pregnant. She's sixteen-years-old, unmarried, and scared. She's part of a devoutly Catholic family and community of Donegal, Ireland during the 1980's. Not wanting to bring shame to her family, the unborn chil......more

Goodreads review by Debra

The only man she’s ever loved is seeing her sister. And now they have to save her together. Rural Ireland Una Gallagher is a 16-year-old pregnant teen in the beginning of this book. She has disclosed her pregnancy to her mother who wants her to give up the baby. Una then leaves town, keeping a sec......more