Ann O Farrell: 4 books

Norah’s Children is the first book of a trilogy set in Ireland and England. Ann O’Farrell narrates a story of a family’s inexplicable dissolution—five children tragically split and cast off to separate worlds. In the span of fourteen formative years their story unfolds touching the very core...

Dublin. 1953. Humor, excitement and tension collide during a chaotic twenty four hours in Kitty O’Connor’s household when her wayward nephew arrives, on the run from the British police.

Irish, orphaned, and abandoned, Michael aged three, is given to strangers who unjustly judge him inferior and pass him on again, this time to an exploitive spinster. The novel explores the meanings of family to a child confused by loyalties to country, (England/ Ireland), and to family, (biological/...

For three decades the fortunes of Norah’s children have ebbed and flowed. Now they must adjust to a post-war period that is not all that was promised.This third and final book in the saga of Norah’s children follows the five siblings into marriage and parenthood, and through success and sorrow....