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Past secrets

Past secrets

by Cathy Kelly

FictionWomenFiction, family lifeMothers and daughters, fictionIreland, fiction
4.0
Open Library
Open Library

About this book

Behind the shinning windows and rose-bedecked gardens of Summer Street, hard-working single mother, Faye hides a secret from her teenage daughter, Amber. Thirty year old Maggie hides one from her self. Christine Devlin knows all the answers but has to face a secret of her own.

Themes & subjects

FictionWomenFiction, family lifeMothers and daughters, fictionIreland, fictionFiction, family life, general

Setting

Ireland

About the author

Cathy Kelly
Cathy Kelly

12 September 1966

Cathy Kelly was born 12 September 1966 in Belfast, Northern Ireland, but raised in Dublin. Cathy initially worked for thirteen years as a newspaper journalist with a national Irish Sunday newspaper, where she worked in news, features, along with spending time as an agony aunt and the paper’s film critic. However, her overwhelming love was always fiction and she published her first international bestseller, Woman To Woman, in 1997. She did not become a full-time writer until she had written another two books, and finally decided to leave the world of journalism in 2001, moving to HarperCollins Publishers at the same time. Her trademark is warm story-telling and she consistently tops the be…

Author

Cathy Kelly

Pages

512

Read time

≈ 13h

Editions

4

Language

English

Publisher

Harper Collins

ISBN

9780007154074

Where to buy

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