The Month of Borrowed Dreams
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“The perfect winter heart-warmer.”
—Cathy Kelly, bestselling author of Between Sisters and Secrets of a Happy Marriage
“A delightful read filled with wintry days, cups of tea, and more than a few tidings of comfort and joy, the pages of The Mistletoe Matchmaker weave together the lives and secrets of a family—separated by years and distance, but with deep Irish roots, and leaves the reader longing to spend Christmas in Ireland.”
—Nan Rossiter, bestselling author of More Than You Know
“Engaging . . . full of humour . . . plenty of lively characters to add spice to this charming story.”
—Books Ireland
THE TRANSATLANTIC BOOK CLUB
by Felicity Hayes-McCoy
The beloved author of The Mistletoe Matchmaker returns with an enchanting new novel, perfect for fans of Jenny Colgan, Nina George, and Nancy Thayer, about residents of Ireland’s Finfarran Peninsula who set up a Skype book club with the little US town of Resolve, where generations of Finfarran’s emigrants have settled.
Distance makes no difference to love . . .
Eager to cheer up her recently widowed gran, Cassie Fitzgerald, visiting from Canada, persuades Lissbeg Library to set up a Skype book club, linking readers on Ireland’s Finfarran Peninsula with the US town of Resolve, home to generations of Finfarran emigrants.
But when the club decides to read a detective novel, old conflicts on both sides of the ocean are exposed and hidden love affairs come to light. As secrets emerge, Cassie fears she may have done more harm than good. Will the truths she uncovers about her granny Pat’s marriage affect her own hopes of finding love? Is Pat, who’s still struggling with the death of her husband, about to fall out with her oldest friend, Mary? Or could the book club itself hold the key to a triumphant transatlantic happy ending?
The Transatlantic Book Club continues the stories of the residents of the Finfarran Peninsula and introduces readers to new characters whom they will surely fall in love with.
Also by Felicity Hayes-McCoy
FICTION
The Library at the Edge of the World
Summer at the Garden Café
The Mistletoe Matchmaker
The Transatlantic Book Club
NONFICTION
The House on an Irish Hillside
Enough Is Plenty: The Year on the Dingle Peninsula
A Woven Silence: Memory, History & Remembrance
Dingle and Its Hinterland: People, Places and Heritage
Copyright
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Originally published in Ireland in 2018 by Hachette Books Ireland.
P.S. is a registered trademark of HarperCollins Publishers.
THE MONTH OF BORROWED DREAMS. Copyright © 2018 by Felicity Hayes-McCoy. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
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FIRST US EDITION
Digital Edition NOVEMBER 2021 ISBN: 978-0-06-288953-9
Version 09082021
Print ISBN: 978-0-06-288952-2 (pbk.)
ISBN 978-0-06-314306-7 (library edition)
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