The Guinness girls, Emily Hourican
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The Guinness girls, Emily Hourican
Language
eng
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Literary Form
fiction
Main title
The Guinness girls
Responsibility statement
Emily Hourican
Series statement
Guinness girls, 2
Summary
It's the dawn of the 1930s and the three privileged Guinness sisters, Aileen, Maureen and Oonagh, settle into becoming wives and mothers: Aileen in Luttrellstown Castle outside Dublin, Maureen in Clandeboye in Northern Ireland, and Oonagh in Rutland Place in London. But while Britain becomes increasingly politically polarised, Aileen, Maureen and Oonagh discover conflict within their own marriages. Oonagh's dream of romantic love is countered by her husband's lies; the intense nature of Maureen's marriage means passion, but also rows; while Aileen begins to discover that, for her, being married offers far less than she had expected. Meanwhile, Kathleen, a housemaid from their childhood home in Glenmaroon, travels between the three sisters, helping, listening, watching - even as her own life brings her into conflict with the clash between fascism and communism. As affairs are uncovered and secrets exposed, the three women begin to realise that their guiled upbringing could not have prepared them for the realities of married life, nor for the scandals that seem to follow them around
Target audience
adult
resource.variantTitle
Hint of a scandal : a novel
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- Wealth -- Fiction
- Domestic fiction
- London (England) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Socialites -- England -- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Scandals -- Fiction
- Nineteen thirties -- Fiction
- Married women -- Fiction
- Sisters -- Fiction
- Ireland -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction
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- Subject10
- Wealth -- Fiction
- Domestic fiction
- London (England) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Socialites -- England -- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Scandals -- Fiction
- Nineteen thirties -- Fiction
- Married women -- Fiction
- Sisters -- Fiction
- Ireland -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction
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- Author1
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