Description A story of friendship, betrayal and romance, a wonderful sequel to the bestselling Cassa.
The beautiful Cassa Blake, a dutiful daughter who gave up her youth to care for ageing parents, was left the substantial family property, but not the money for its upkeep. Fear of her grasping, disinherited sister, who is determined to appropriate the legacy, impels her towards marriage, and she realises too late that it is her husband’s brother Frank, a priest, with whom she is passionately in love.
Now living in a large house in an idyllic riverside setting, she is grieving over the loss of her child in childbirth; she is also grieving for her “beloved Frank”, presumed killed in an earthquake in Peru. Into an already charged atmosphere comes Dermot Tyson, her sister’s estranged husband, who has loved Cassa since first setting eyes on her.
This engrossing tale explores its conflicts of love and loyalty in settings that range from the beautiful countryside on the banks of the Shannon to Dublin, Peru and Paris.
Author Lilian Roberts Finlay, while raising a family of ten, wrote stories for women’s magazines; the children reared, she wrote her first autobiographical novel, Always in My Mind, which was first published in 1988, and a sequel, Forever in the Past(1993).
Her collection of short stories, A Bona Fide Husband, was published in 1990 and her second novel, Stella in 1992. Her third novel, Cassa, was published by Mount Eagle in 1998. She now lives in Dunsany, County Meath.
"A romantic family saga related with elegant craft." RTÉ Guide
"Lilian Roberts Finlay has neatly married the faded gentility of 1950s Dublin with the brasher money conscious years of the '70s and '80s . . . An absorbing view." IE Book Review
