All the Walls of Belfast by Sarah Carlson

Fiona’s mom fled with her to the United States when she was two, but, fourteen years after the Troubles ended, a forty-foot-tall peace wall still separates her dad’s Catholic neighborhood from Danny’s Protestant neighborhood.Īt the bar of a grand hotel in a small Irish town sits 84-year-old Maurice Hannigan. Seventeen-year-olds, Fiona and Danny must choose between their dreams and the people they aspire to be.įiona and Danny were born in the same hospital. Set in post-conflict Belfast (Northern Ireland), alternating between two teenagers, both trying to understand their past and preserve their future. They lose patients to this baffling pandemic, but they also shepherd new life into a fearful world. In the darkness and intensity of this tiny ward, over three days, these women change each other's lives in unexpected ways. Into Julia's regimented world step two outsiders - Doctor Kathleen Lynn, a rumoured Rebel on the run from the police, and a young volunteer helper, Bridie Sweeney.

In an Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospital in the city center, where expectant mothers who have come down with the terrible new Flu are quarantined together. With the extended family-including Enda's much-younger new wife Leah, a virtuoso violinist-suspected in his murder, it's up to Siobhán to ensure the guilty party faces the music. When the O'Sullivans learn everyone will choose a name from a hat to buy a music-related Christmas gift for someone else at the gathering, it seems like their greatest concern-until the cantankerous conductor is discovered crushed under a ninety-pound harp in a local concert hall. Garda Siobhán O'Sullivan's holiday plans hit a sour note when murder rearranges the Yuletide carols into unexpected eulogies.the entire O'Sullivan brood has gone off to West Cork to spend the holidays with brother James' fiancée Elise's family, including her grandfather, the famous orchestral conductor Enda Elliot. Murder at an Irish Christmas - Carlene O'Connor

All the Walls of Belfast by Sarah Carlson