Trials and Tribulations, Jean Grainger
Trials and Tribulations, Jean Grainger
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Trials and Tribulations
The Robinswood Story Book 3

Author: Jean Grainger

Narrator: Siobhan Waring

Unabridged: 9 hr 39 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Jean Grainger

Published: 01/14/2024


Synopsis

Robinswood Estate, County Waterford, 1950 Three sisters, the three men that love them, and a house that could consume them all. Assuming their roles as the new Lord and Lady Kenefick and returning to Robinswood with the plan to drag it back from the brink of dereliction, is taking its toll on Kate and Sam. With a young family to raise, a very limited budget and only Kate’s parents to help, the task seems insurmountable. Kate’s eldest sister Eve and her husband Bartley have found happiness in each other after some dark years, but when a face from the past appears, it seems that everything they have worked so hard to create is threatened. Aisling, the middle sister, is being evasive and the family suspect something is very wrong. On the face of it, she has it all, a lovely husband, a comfortable house and a supportive family, but she is in deep trouble, and nobody can even guess at the real reason why. Meanwhile Lady Lillian, Sam’s sister, is useless and arrogant, refusing to accept that things have changed and that her title is not going to get her what she wants, least of all from her husband Beau. In the midst of it all Dermot and Isabella Murphy try their best to maintain a life and a home for their family, but the trials and tribulations of life at Robinswood might just tear them all apart. .

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 Ilse on January 29, 2023

Mitigated happiness If you’ve had a beautiful dream you should thank God for it and not complain when the dream ends and reality returns. On Tangled Paths is a beauteous, subtle story which thematises the challenge (or sheer impossibility) to rhyme the conventional order as prevalent in Prussian soci......more

Goodreads review by Issicratea on September 18, 2014

I can’t believe quite how dismissive, or damning-with-faint-praise, the English-language reviews of this novel on Goodreads are. It’s a relatively early novel of Fontane’s, considering his late start as a novelist (it was published in 1888, when he was almost 70), but I think it’s a minor melancholy......more

Goodreads review by Daisy on April 12, 2023

This is a fairly familiar tale of love across the class divides but unlike most of these romantic fictions, love does not conquer all. This is a novella and perhaps the subject matter is slight enough to warrant such a short book but I felt it never really got going. Everything is too compressed. Ou......more