Upon learning that her real father was Thomas Concannon, Shannon Bodine travels from New York to Ireland to meet her half-sisters and finds love with horseman Murphy Muldoon

Fleeing for Ireland in the wake of a failed relationship, fashion designer Kate Robinson finds herself in a coastal Gaelic village and bonds with the members of a lace-making society, through whom she finds healing by listening to their stories of loss and suffering.

"From "an extravagantly gifted writer who deserves to be widely read" (Rachel Cusk, The Telegraph), this intimate, quietly stunning novel tells the story of a young American expat who settles in Ireland in the late 1980s, marries, and lives through the consequences of an affair. Alice, a young American, arrives in the West of Ireland with no plans and no strong attachments--except to her beloved mother, who raised her on her own. Alice falls in love...

After Rhett leaves Scarlett, she searches for a new life in Charleston and Ireland still secretly hoping one day he'll come back to her.