![]() ![]() Before fate drove them back to Castlebay, and the past. Clare's only hope is to leave the town where time stopped, propelled by scholarships to Dublin, fueled by her own drive and brilliance, far from the insular, gossipy world of Castlebay and those held in its thrall.Angela O'Hara - beautiful, insolated, a teacher trapped in the convent school, who risks everything to help Clare escape.Gerry Doyle, the town charmer who finds in Clare the woman he vows to have at any price.Caroline Nolan, the beautiful, rich outsider who comes to plunder.For Clare, that was before the wild freedom of Dublin, and love. Here in Castlebay, perched precariously on the seaside cliffs, the lines between them were clearly drawn. Power's cherished only son recognized in the huckster's daughter his own heart's desire. ![]() It was a desire that knew no class, no barriers, only the urgent hunger of two people destined to love and ready to defy any convention used by a world determined to keep them apart.Even at fifteen, David Power knew eleven-year-old Clare O'Brien's dearest wish, to win a school prize. Clare and David - divided as children by a rigid social code that branded her as shanty Irish and he as gentry class.brought together as adults by a passion that couldn't be denied. ![]()
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