To My Daughter In France

Barbara Keating, Stephanie Keating

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Vintage
01 September 2003

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

A terrific page-turner - a summer novel which really is 'The perfect holiday read' Independent on Sunday

'And to my daughter in France, I bequeath the remainder of my Estate'

These words, read from the will of Irish academic Richard Kirwan, come as a complete surprise to his grieving family. Solange de Valnay's perfectly ordered world is shattered when she discovers the identity of her true father for the first time. She loves the man who has always been 'Papa' and the Languedoc vineyard in which she had the happiest of childhoods; Celine, her adored mother, is dead. But the truth of Richard Kirwan's liaison with her mother cannot remain buried, and the Kirwan children and their half-sister must overcome their differences and confront the past that unites them.

What emerges is an extraordinary tale of an impossible but irresistible love affair, of passion and blind heroism, of sacrifices made for love and honour and of four families whose resistance to the German forces occupying France during WWII binds them across the borders and cultures through war and peace.

By: Barbara Keating, Stephanie Keating
Imprint: Vintage
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 27mm
Weight: 319g
ISBN: 9780099449935
ISBN 10: 0099449935
Pages: 480
Publication Date: 01 September 2003
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Barbara and Stephanie Keating grew up in Kenya. One sister now lives in France and the other in Dublin. This novel - a seamless collaboration - is their first.

Reviews for To My Daughter In France

Full of intrigue, love, passion and anger Irish Independent A singular literary event - a cosmopolitan novel Observer Stiff upper lips are melted by passion in this story of wartime valour and present day curiosity Irish Tatler