IRELAND AUTHOR · LARGE TYPE · FICTION
Catherine Gaskin
Also known as: Catherine. Gaskin, GASKIN CATHERINE
Catherine Gaskin (2 April 1929 – 6 September 2009) historical fiction and romantic suspense. She was born in Dundalk Bay, Louth, Ireland in 1929. When she was only three months old, her parents moved to Australia, settling in Coogee, a suburb of Sydney, where she grew up. Her first novel This Other Eden, was written when she was 15 and published two years later. After her second novel, With Every Year, was published, she moved to London. Three best-sellers followed: Dust in Sunlight (1950), All Else is Folly (1951), and Daughter of the House (1952). She completed her best known work, Sara Dane, on her 25th birthday in 1954, and it was published in 1955. It sold more than 2 million copies, was translated into a number of other languages, and was made into a television series in Australia in 1982. Other novels included A Falcon for the Queen (1972) and The Summer of the Spanish Woman (1977). Catherine Gaskin moved to Manhattan for ten years, after marrying an American. She then moved to the Virgin Islands, then in 1967 to Ireland, where she became an Irish citizen. She also lived on the Isle of Man. Her last novel was The Charmed Circle (1988). She then returned to Sydney, where she died in September 2009, aged 80, of ovarian cancer. *Goodreads
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I Know My Love
THEY WERE THREE MAGNIFICENT AND POWERFUL PEOPLE.... First there was Emmy. Beautiful and patient. A woman desperately in love with her husband, but willing to sacrifice that love for his happiness. Then there was Rose. More beautiful than Emmy, and consumed by a fierce, relentless passion. A woman married to one man, but wanting another. Even if that man belonged to Emmy. And there was Adam.The man both these women wanted.The man caught between the one he loved and the one he desired most.
The summer of the Spanish woman
The dramatic blockbuster that takes you from the windy shores of Ireland to the sun-baked earth of Spain; this is a gripping story of family pride, forbidden love, secrets and lies. Beginning at the turn of the last century and spanning the First World War and the Spanish Civil War, The Summer of the Spanish Woman is another spellbinding page-turner from the pen of the bestselling author of The Property of a Gentleman and Sara Dane. When her grandfather dies without leaving a male heir, Charlotte Drummond and her mother are forced to leave their family home, Clonmara. A distant cousin, Richard Selwin, inherits her grandfather's estate and the title of Lord Blodmore. He also claims Charlotte's heart, but a cruel twist of fate prevents them from being together. Charlotte and her mother begin a new life in the Spanish town of Jerez among the families and vineyards of the great Spanish sherry dynasties. There she discovers the surprising secrets of her grandfather's younger life, and the mystery surrounding “the Summer of the Spanish Woman” many decades before. As Charlotte learns more about the events of that long-ago summer she realises that its far-reaching consequences stretch into the present. Drawn into a web of deceit and vengeance, her destiny is shaped by both her enemies and her allies in this foreign land. And she must confront Isabel, Marquesa de Pontevedra, whose presence casts light or shadow over those whose lives she seeks to control. A brilliant family saga which paints a vivid picture of life among the sherry makers of early twentieth century Spain and the turmoil of the Spanish Civil War.
Edge of Glass
THE CULLODEN CUP showed the art of the Irish glassmaker at its peak. But now the great Sheridan factory at Cloncath lies idle - the craftsmen are old, the buildings decaying around them, and the family have no money to revive the industry. MAURA D'ARCY last of the family, now on the verge of a brilliant modelling career, journeys to Cloncath to reclaim the Culloden Cup, stolen from her mother. The glassworks have a strange fascination for her, as does her unknown cousin. CONNOR SHERIDAN desperately seeking a way to save the Sheridan name, is a man trapped by past glory and the harsh realities of the present. He sees Maura only as a dangerous rival, and in his relentless determination to rebuild the glassworks to their former glory, Connor is a man who cannot afford to lose a single battle...