Time Tells Tales

Time Tells Tales - A Novel In Five Tales Set in Ireland in the early 1900's, this is a collection of five tales told over time, exploring the relationships between three interconnected families. They are intricately woven together by love, birth, death, and marriage and spiced up by religion, scandal, abuse, heartache, and spiritual intervention. The first is Alfred's Tale - Dead in a Ditch.

This is the sequel to Tale One - Alfred's Tale, and tells the story from the perspective of Catherine, the love of Alfred's troubled life. Here we meet this young girl, Catherine, on the verge of womanhood, who has to deal with the unexpected death of her Mother under suspicious circumstances and the fallout of her Father's grief and the interference of the Catholic Church.

Theresa's Tale tells of forbidden love. She is the illegitimate daughter of Catherine and Alfred. She is raised by catholic nuns in an orphanage in county Kerry where she was born, taken from her mother before she had chance to even glimpse her bastard child.

Set in 1994 in England this Tale is about Jim Middleton and his wife Serena, nee Rooney. Serena dies prematurely from bowel cancer at the age of 58. Serena and Jim have one child, Paul, who met June Bennett, legitimate daughter of Catherine Bennett, at university and they marry. They have a gifted child, Angela, who Serena got to hold, cruelly for a for a brief moment before her passing.