Ireland during the Second World War is adrift from Europe. Bathed in the beauty of her native Mayo, eighteen-year-old Lily O'Donoghue, dreaming about being a famous singer, is beguiled by the bright lights of Dublin. Her future is already decided, though; to complete a degree in UCD and make her parents proud. The summer before she goes to university a heady romance sweeps her into the arms of Theo, a handsome American visiting the locality. Arriving in Dublin, student life is too big a distraction and her sister, Moyra, wins Theo over. The war intrudes, in the presence of an American Naval Base in Belfast. The difficulty of maintaining close links between sisters when personal ambition and stolen love threaten to tear them apart drives this story of desire forward. Lines of songs from the period spill into the narrative, particularly Irish ballads of the author's iconic aunt, the much-loved Delia Murphy.
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