Overview

This is the story of Katharine O’Brien, who comes of age in English-occupied World War I Ireland. It’s 1914, and Kate is a young woman with a violent father and an uncertain future. Things start to fall into place, though, when she meets Theodora Alaster: a woman with whom she finds love and, for the first time, a real home. But when Thea is taken by the English during a trip to Dublin, Kate is left alone to navigate through additional loss and betrayal. She comes nearer than she ever wanted to her country’s hot politics, and suffers the consequences. And yet, through all of these hardships, the hope of one day finding Thea never leaves her heart.