Regina McBride Books

As a teenager, Violet O'Halloran spent a summer at a Catholic boarding school in Northern Ireland, emptied of all other students but one: Indira Sharma, a blind girl from India with an extraordinary story. The beautiful but ultimately catastrophic friendship that formed between the two girls would go on to haunt Violet for years. A decade later, Violet meets an Irishman, Emmett Fitzroy, at a party in New York City and is swept into an intense romance that brings her back to Ireland. While there, she unearths the stunning answers to mysteries left unresolved when Indira vanished from her life. Set in Northern Ireland at the height of the Troubles, Stranger from Across the Sea explores place, displacement, and exile and the ways in which the personal and the political are inseparable. At its heart, this is a story about a passionate friendship between two singular young women, one that transcends the limits of time and distance.

""My mother was never easy in the world of houses. She was a tinker, a traveler girl who had married a wealthy man. Her name was Agatha Sheehy...There are silences all around my mother's story."". "So begins The Nature of Water and Air, set on a patch of Irish coast where, amid a flurry of whispers, we meet Agatha's only surviving daughter, Clodagh. Determined to secure her mother's elusive love and the truth about her, Clodagh is swept into a relationship with a handsome, isolated man. He brings her to the heart of her mother's story, where she must confront the questions "Does a truth change love?" and "What madness will come from chasing a secret?""--BOOK JACKET.

Regina McBride lebt in New York City und unterrichtet dort am Hunter College Creative Writing. Neben Romanen schreibt und veröffentlicht sie auch - preisgekrönte - Gedichte. Im Heyne Verlag erscheint auch: „Das Lied von Wasser und Wind“.

Die kleine Clodagh lebt mit ihrer Mutter Agatha an der rauen Küste Irlands. Vor ihrer Heirat lebte Agatha als wildes Tinkermädchen. Sie ist eine Einzelgängerin, die niemanden an sich heranlässt. Als Agatha eines Tages ins Meer geht und nicht wiederkehrt, ist Clodagh tief verstört: Eine alte, fast vergessene Legende hat sich erfüllt. Viele Jahre später taucht Clodagh in Agathas Welt ein. Durch die Liebe zu einem Mann erkennt sie das Schicksal ihrer Mutter - und ihr eigenes.