Whelan has created a richly textured plot with pathos, humor and charm... An excellent read for romance fans.
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Title
A Good Confession
Author
Bridget Whelan
Publishers
UK : Severn House (WEL)
US : Severn House
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In Bridget Whelan's captivating debut novel A Good Confession, Cathleen is a young widow struggling to bring up her family in North London in the 1960s who falls in love with a priest. And not just any priest, but Father Jerry, her dead husband's cousin. Knowing that the gulf between them is too great, Cathleen battles to hide her feelings. She hopes confession will ease her troubled mind, not realising that she is confessing to the man she loves, and the man who loves her.A cousin's murder in south west Ireland forces them to face the consequences of their love affair. When Cathleen and Jerry unravel this mysterious death, what they discover forces them to make the hardest decision of all.
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A moving, humourous and subtle book
Irish World
Bridget Whelan writes in the great Irish tradition of storytelling. A Good Confession is an unputdownable, compelling love story about the conflict between passion and duty.
Miriam Stoppard, Daily Mirror