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'As heart-warming as it is heartbreaking, this novel is unputdownable' Sunday Express.
Tarabeg is a small village on the West Coast of Ireland. In the aftermath of the Second World War, two women are waiting there for ambitious Michael Malone to return home.

Rosie is the local schoolteacher and most people think she is promised to him. Just a few have guessed that he has secretly begun to woo Sarah, whose brutal fisherman father would kill her if he knew.

Both Rosie and Sarah love Michael, both hope to become his wife and their lives will interweave in a tale of tangled secrets, old promises and new feuds. Michael Malone's choice will have fateful consequences for everyone – especially, in due course, for his young daughter.

This is the first in a new sequence of novels with a brilliant cast of characters and a story that will lead to Liverpool in Mary Kate and back to Ireland in The Velvet Ribbon.

Product details

Published Aug 12 2026
Format Audiobook
Duration 10 hours and 0 minutes
ISBN 9781035925773
Imprint Head of Zeus
Series The Tarabeg Series
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Author

Nadine Dorries

Nadine Dorries grew up in a working-class family i…

Narrator

Clara Harte

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