In 1950s Scotland, everything is changing for the Grace girls. Heather and Kirsty Grace are sisters growing up in Rowanhill, near Glasgow, surrounded by a big Irish family and a host of friends and neighbours. Older sister Heather has everything that should make her happy - a steady job, good friends and a boyfriend who wants to marry her. Why then does she long to escape her small town and find love and excitement among the bright lights of the city? Kirsty, two years younger, also yearns for a different kind of life. Although she works in a local chemist, at nights she sings with a band in church halls and clubs. When a charismatic Irishman, Larry Delaney, spots her singing one evening and offers to become her manager, Heather wonders whether Larry has his sights set on more than just Kirsty's singing talents. The Grace girls are lucky to have such a caring family around them. It's a dangerous world out there and there are plenty of pitfalls and temptations ahead of two young women in search of adventure...
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'If you only read one family saga this year, make it this one. You'll laugh, cry and root for every character right to the end.' DAILY RECORD 'An enjoyable and heart-warming tale.' WESTERN DAILY PRESS 'a heart-warming tale of likeable characters that will have you turning the pages to see if their dreams come true...' BELFAST TELEGRAPH
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Geraldine O'Neill lives in County Offaly, Ireland, with her husband and two children.
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The Grace's are an Irish family, living in a small village outside Glasgow, in the mid fifties, a time of great religious intolerance and of narrow minds which can see only one way..theirs! Heather and Kirsty are teenaged girls, both working in respectable jobs, who live with their parents, next door to their aunt, uncle and cousins, in a close, family relationship. Their Aunt Mona is an acid tongued, rigidly Catholic woman, who works as housekeeper to the local priest, and who acts as a moral guardian of everyone else's behaviour. When Heather breaks up with her boyfriend, who is shortly after killed in acar accident, moralising fingers point at her as a possible contributor to the boy's death. Kirsty is pursuing a promising career as a band singer when she meets and falls in love with a man who is ten years older than her. Her family can only think that this man is after her virtue and give her a very hard time, with her father threatening to finish her singing career. I well remember this period with its inflexible codes where, if you didn't conform to your family and friend's standard of behaviour, you were considered to be "strange", if not downright suspect.
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