A Measured Thread: Large Print Edition
Paperback 348 pages English Oct 02, 2020
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Fifty years is a long time to keep a secret.Looking back on her life, Maggie O'Connor is rightfully pleased. Fifty years ago she left Ireland with a single suitcase and a dream. After long and satisfying career, she is enjoying retirement on her farm in rural Wisconsin -- until she falls. Determined to regain her independence, she hires Isobel, a young woman who is also an emigrant. Helping Maggie clean house, Isobel finds a cache of letters that Maggie wrote to her parents those many years ago and begins to read them aloud to Maggie.But the letters contain a secret, one that Maggie has kept for fifty years. A secret that threatens to destroy her life and that of the people around her. With little time left, she must make a choice -- give up, or face her past. A Measured Thread is a powerful story that explores questions of guilt, abandonment, redemption, and the consequences of the choices we make.
- Author:
- Mary Behan
- Publisher:
- Lawrence Gate Press
- Publication Date:
- Oct 02, 2020
- Number of pages:
- 348 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 1734494336
- ISBN-13:
- 9781734494334