The Trouble With Secrets, Jean Grainger
The Trouble With Secrets, Jean Grainger
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The Trouble With Secrets
The Kilteegan Bridge Story

Author: Jean Grainger

Narrator: Siobhan Waring

Unabridged: 7 hr 41 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/27/2023

Synopsis

Kilteegan Bridge, County Cork 1958 For eighteen year old Lena O'Sullivan, life is predictable and dull. A future of hard work, marriage to a local boy, and a family of her own one day is all she has to look forward to. People from her background know not to expect too much, but Lena yearns for something different. Malachy Berger was different, for him, the world is at his feet. An only child of a wealthy, if peculiar father, a large inheritance, a beautiful house and a fine education are his due. Nobody is in favour of Lena and Malachy’s friendship, but why not? What harm are they doing? Why is everyone so dead set against it? Then fate takes a hand, and Lena realises that secrets and lies have bound her and Malachy in an impossible situation. And their future seems determined by events that happened long before they were born. From rural Ireland to post-war Cardiff, Lena and Malachy’s story winds its way back to wartime Germany and occupied France in a web of deceit that threatens to destroy them both.

About Jean Grainger

Jean Grainger is an Irish bestselling author who specializes in contemporary as well as historical fiction. Once a tour guide for Ireland, she went on to become an English and history teacher in a secondary school for boys. The winner of the 2016 Author's Circle Historical Novel of Excellence, she currently resides with her husband and children in rural County Cork, Ireland.

About Siobhan Waring

Siobhan Waring is a British audiobook narrator and voiceover artist. An Earphones Award winner and the winner of the 2021 Independent Audiobook Award for Best Female Narrator, she has recorded over sixty books in a wide range of genres. She also records voiceover for e-Learning, radio, commercial, online, corporate, and documentary applications.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Heather Adores Books on October 23, 2024

3.5⭐️ Genre ~ historical fiction (1958) Series ~ Kilteegan Bridge Story, #1 Setting ~ Ireland & Wales Publication date ~ May 3, 2022 Est Page Count ~ 329 (29 chapters +e) Audio length ~ 7 hours 41 minutes Narrator ~ Siobhan Waring Featuring ~ coming of age, unwed pregnancy, adoption, family drama, secrets......more

Goodreads review by Sandra on April 26, 2022

Secrets? Yes, there is not a family in this world that doesn't have secrets or skeletons in the closet, and the families in this story certainly had their share of them too. I loved how this author, Jean Grainger, wove this story around so many unusual, unique, likeable and unlikeable characters; an......more

Goodreads review by Natalie on April 10, 2022

This is a great book. I love all Jean Grainger’s books but I particularly enjoyed this one. Set in Ireland after WW2, it tells the story of Lena O’Sullivan and her family. Her father has died and her mother has mental health problems. Lena is having a romance with a local boy from a more privileged......more

Goodreads review by Karen Forbes on December 12, 2022

a bit plodding There seems to be a lot of padding in this story, nice enough but lots of narrative with the real story being rather thin. Then the end reveals it’s a series, so more books to buy….......more

Goodreads review by Melanie on October 03, 2024

I would rank this as 3.5 stars. The story was an enjoyable read, but pretty guessable on what was going to happen. Characters were realistic and the plot moved along at a decent speed. How did this book find me? It was a Hoopla Bonus Borrow.......more

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