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Title: The Secrets of Roscarbury Hall

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: Ann O'Loughlin

Narrator: Anne Flosnik

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-23-17

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Secrets can't last forever in this heartfelt debut novel, a UK bestseller and contemporary Philomena story.

In a crumbling mansion in a small Irish village in County Wicklow, two elderly sisters, Ella and Roberta O'Callaghan, live alone in Roscarbury Hall with their secrets, memories, and mutual hatred. Long estranged by a dark family tragedy, the two communicate only by terse notes. But when the sisters are threatened with bankruptcy, Ella defies Roberta's wishes and takes matters into her own hands, putting her baking skills to good use and converting the mansion's old ballroom into a café.

Much to Roberta's displeasure, the café is a hit and the sisters are reluctantly drawn back into the village life they abandoned decades ago. But gossip has a long life, and Ella finds herself reliving painful memories when Debbie, an American woman searching for her birth mother, begins working at the café. As the local convent comes under scrutiny, the O'Callaghan sisters find themselves caught up in an adoption scandal that dates back to the 1960s and spreads all the way across the Atlantic Ocean. Only by overcoming their enmity and facing up to the past can they face the future together - but can they finally put their differences behind them? An emotionally rich story with flashes of humor, gossip, and tragedy, The Secrets of Roscarbury Hall is a moving debut novel of love both lost and found.

Members Reviews:

A true five star read

The characters were amazing as was the story and how the lives were interwoven. The secrets that were slowly revealed and the heartbreak that the people dealt with during the tragedy of betrayal, by their siblings, their spouses, their parents, their Church. Ultimately, they must decide to move forward and forgive, or hold onto the mistakes of the past and allow it to destroy the future. They was great sadness and a sense of some ends finally coming altogether for some of the characters after too many tragedies in their lives. I loved this book, and I am having a very hard time giving a review without a spoiler. I d not often but books because there are so many free ones available, but I am so glad that I bought this one and read it right away. Great story, wonderful characters, emotional material.

Lovely story

I loved the care with which the author created fully developed characters in a story that could have been taken straight from history. She made the reader care about the poor women whose babies were taken from them as if the women were our own family or friends. Even though time could not be rewritten for these women, the story ended in a logical and peaceful manner. I really enjoyed the book.

Very good read.

Very good read. The tension between two sisters immediately grabs the reader. The reason they haven't spoken in years piques the interest and when revealed is shocking. The arrival of a woman from America with her own sorrows and trials adds new interest and her story too is intruiging. The climax and ending are both satisfying and thought provoking.

Not very good

I bought this book based on physically seeing it rather than my usual method of reviews, blogs or website recommendations. It's one that seems to be advertised everywhere and I liked the Irish angle and it was available (at that point) on Kindle cheaply. What I wasn't expecting was for the writing to be so poor.