The Girl Across the Sea, Noelle Harrison
The Girl Across the Sea, Noelle Harrison
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The Girl Across the Sea

Author: Noelle Harrison

Narrator: Esther Wane

Unabridged: 11 hr 7 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/17/2022


Synopsis

"I need you to find out what happened to my mother. The woman who sent me across the sea to Ireland. And never came to find me." Mairead's world is falling apart. Recently separated, she has returned to her beautiful childhood home in Ireland to nurse her dying mother. But as Brigid sits pale and papery thin, looking out over the Atlantic Ocean, she has one last request for her only daughter . . . Brigid hands Mairead a stunning turquoise necklace and a small black-and-white photograph of her mother, Ellen, a woman she never met. She begs Mairead to go to New York, the last place Ellen was seen alive, and find out what became of her. Mairead cannot ignore her mother's dying wish. But when Mairead arrives in America, she is shocked by the secrets she uncovers. In an old church in Arizona she discovers her grandmother was a wanted woman in Ireland, accused of murder. What lies in her family's past? And what does the turquoise necklace mean? As she digs deeper, the trail leads Mairead to a small mossy graveyard in Ireland where she might finally learn the truth. But if she does, will she re-open old wounds, and put her own future into terrible danger?

Author Bio

Noelle Harrison is an Irish author who's been writing novels and plays for nearly thirty years. Her first novel, Beatrice, was published in August 2004 and was a bestseller in Ireland. This was followed by A Small Part Of Me in 2005, I Remember in 2008, The Adulteress in 2010, The Secret Loves of Julia in 2012, The Gravity of Love in 2018, and The Island Girls in 2020.

Her books have been published in over twelve different countries. She is also published under the pen name Evie Blake, and her Valentina trilogy hit the Der Spiegel Bestseller List in 2013.

In 2014 she was one of fifty-six Irish writers included in the anthology and exhibition Lines of Vision Irish Writers on Art at the National Gallery of Ireland, and published by Thames & Hudson.

She has also written five plays: Northern Landscapes, Black Virgin, Runaway Wife, The Good Sister, and Witches' Gets, which featured in Cymera and Audacious Women Festivals in Edinburgh to sell out houses.

She currently lives in Edinburgh in Scotland, and is one of the founders of Aurora Writers' Retreats, and part of the wellness hub The Space To BE.

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