American Connie Carter has lost everybody and everything dear to her. She moves to Ludlow Hall, Wicklow, Ireland to nurse her grieving heart and find answers. There, she meets Eve and Hetty and is introduced to The Ludlow Ladies Society. Can her hurt be healed? Can she ever understand or forgive? As the women stitch patchwork memory quilts to remember those they have lost, the secrets of the past emerge. With the Ludlow Ladies Society behind her, Connie has to face those secrets and the memories sweet and sour, but can she let go of the past? A story of friendship, resilience and compassion, and of how women hold each other up through the most difficult times, this is a tale which will have you crying one minute and laughing the next.
A leading journalist in Ireland for nearly thirty years, Ann O'Loughlin has covered all major news events of the last three decades. Ann spent most of her career with independent newspapers where she was Security Correspondent at the height of The Troubles, and was a senior journalist on the Irish Independent and Evening Herald. She is currently a senior journalist with the Irish Examiner newspaper covering legal issues. Ann has also lived and worked in India. Originally from the west of Ireland she now lives on the east coast in Co. Wicklow with her husband and two children. Her debut novel The Ballroom Cafe was a bestseller, with over 250,000 copies sold in eBook. Her second novel The Judge's Wife was an Irish bestseller for 5 weeks. The Judge's Wife was shortlisted for a Romantic Novel Award in February 2017.
Title: The The Ludlow Ladies' Society
Author: O'Loughlin, Ann
ISBN: 9781785301575
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Publisher: Bonnier Books Ltd
Publication Date: 2018-01-18
Number of Pages: 288
Weight: 0.2813 kg
The Ludlow Ladies' Society brought me to a beautiful place and into a circle of friends that I didn't want to leave. Unputdownable. KATE KERRIGAN It's a heart-warming story ... but also an addictive page-turner with plenty of unexpected twists and reveals in store. READER'S DIGEST