Cashelmara

by Susan Howatch

Genres: General Fiction; Literary Fiction; Suspense

Synopsis

The New York Times best selling saga: In nineteenth-century Ireland, a titled English family keeps an estate in an era of famine and violent conflict.

When Edward de Salis travels to America after the death of his first wife, he is astonished to find himself falling in love with Marguerite, a young woman many years his junior. Full of hope for the future, he returns to his Irish estate, Cashelmara, but in nineteenth-century Ireland—a country racked by poverty and famine—his family eventually becomes trapped in a sinister spiral of violence that Edward could never have foreseen. Cashelmara follows the fortunes of three generations as they struggle to survive both the tragedies of history and their own chaotic lives.

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Print pages: 708