Mary Kate - A gripping new Liverpool saga from the Sunday Times bestseller

Nadine Dorries

Summary

'Dorries is the queen of the saga and she is back with a heart-wrenching, captivating new novel' Bookish Jottings. 
 
Liverpool, 1963. 
 
Mary Kate Malone is seventeen and bitterly unhappy that her father has married again after the death of her mother. On her last day at school, she decides to leave home in Tarabeg on the west coast of Ireland and head for Liverpool to find her mother's sister. 
 
But absolutely nothing goes to plan. Within hours of disembarking, she finds herself penniless and alone, with no place to stay and no idea how she will survive. 
 
Meanwhile, back in Ireland, where old sins cast long shadows, a long-buried secret is about to come to light and a day of reckoning, in the shape of a stranger from America, will set an unstoppable chain of events in motion. 
 
What readers are saying about the Tarabeg Series: 
 
'A brilliant read, a wonderful story and I have already pre-orderd the next book' 
 
'Great read! Nadine Dorries is a top author, love her books!' 
 
'Did not want it to end!! Gripping, detailed ... Really draws you in to the story'

Available since: 01/10/2019.

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