Born into a tight-knit family in Duleek, County Meath, Ireland, Hilary McGuinness was an academic disaster but always had a notion she’d write a novel someday. Her early life in the village of Duleek – unremarkable, yes, but still hers – was all about friends and sport, then school and tending bar, where her customers opened a door for her that never closed. After trying her hand in New York City – a lark that turned into a fifteen-year stint – she finally returned home to settle in County Louth with her husband, Calum, and their two amazing kids, Archie and Danny.
A handsome brooding newcomer wanders into the local pub in tiny Lough Croi and into the life of a feisty red-head from his past. But he’s not the hero of the story, she is.Starry-eyed, wicked-tongued Maedbh Kelly sees the world with a bartender’s insight as she struggles to lift from beige to br...