A Life Before: Media Kit

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A Life Before: Book Details

Title: A Life Before

Series: The Yeats-Gonne Series (Book 1)

Genre: Literary Fiction
ISBN: 978-1-913349-69-1
Publisher: Font Publications
Publication Date: Spring 2025
Purchase Link: Ornaross.com/ALifeBefore

About A Life Before

A Life Before is the first book in the highly anticipated Gonne-Yeats series which comprises seven standalone novels that together form an epic biographical fiction sequence about the life and times of Irish luminaries Maud Gonne and WB Yeats, and their circles… public and private.

Book Description:

A personal tragedy means the young English heiress, Maud Gonne, must leave the Ireland she has come to love, to return to the hated home of her patriarchal uncle in London. The young Irish poet WB Yeats, too, is forced by his father to leave his Dublin life where he has been using occult arts to fuel his writing, and to try to bend the woman he loves to his will. Also on that ferryboat is Paddy Cross, an Irish country boy who soon finds himself adrift in London’s criminal underworld.

Three lonely young people, threatened by forces beyond their control, coming of age in an era of international unrest and intrigue. Thus begins an intricately plotted and meticulously researched mix of fictional and factual stories.

The passionate love for Maud Gonne that Yeats immortalised in his poetry begins here. It is the first book in the Gonne-Yeats series, a dazzling seven-book sequence about the real-life, love triangle between the Nobel laureate poet WB Yeats, and the mother and daughter Maud and Iseult Gonne.

This first book in the series, a standalone novel in itself, introduces her cast of extraordinary characters as the three young seekers try to overcome the death or destruction that has suddenly erupted in their lives.

Told in the magical voice of the narrator-romancer, Rosy Cross, the ‘oldest woman in Ireland’, this story brings to life bohemian Dublin, London and Paris–and reveals hidden aspects of the famous poet, the revolutionary activist, and the lives they touched in this time of land agitation, class struggle, and fledgling women's rights movement.

Effortlessly traversing the Irish land wars, the Parisian demi-monde, and the London slums and stage, in A Life Before Orna Ross goes behind the towering reputation of Maud Gonne and WB Yeats to create an unforgettable tale of rich and poor, young and old, romance and reality, invention and truth.

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A Life Before Purchase Details

Buy Link: Ornaross.com/ALifeBefore

Publication Date: 27th April 2025

Available Formats: Epub, Paperback, Large Print, Special Edition

Price: £12.99 / $14.99

About the Author

Orna Ross is an award-winning Irish novelist and poet whose books explore creative expansion and the rebalance of male and female forces. An international bestseller, her writing awards include the Goethe Grand Prize for Historical Fiction and the Gold Literary Titan award for poetry, and she has been named one of the Top 100 People in Publishing for her work with ALLi, the Alliance of Independent Authors. She was born and raised in Wexford, in the south-east of Ireland, and now lives in St Leonard's on Sea, in the south-east of England, within working reach of London. Her motto is: “When in doubt, be braver.” Find out more at OrnaRoss.com/about

Recent Accolades

Blue Mercy

International Firebird Book Award, 2024
BRAG Gold Medallion, 2021
Book Excellence Award, 2021

Her Secret Rose

CAP Carousel Award, 2016

After The Rising & Before The Fall – Two-in-One Special

Global Book Awards: Gold Medal Winner 2024
Literary Titan Silver Award Winner, 2021
American Fiction Award, 2021

After The Rising

Goethe Book Award Grand Prize, 2021
BRAG Gold Medallion, 2021

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Praise for Orna Ross:

“Ross is a highly practiced wordsmith.”—Chanticleer Book Reviews

“Brilliant use of original sources.”—Evening Herald

“A highly ambitious, engaging, and evocative novel and a hauntingly captivating read.”—The Sunday Independent

Orna Ross: Contact Details

Publications Manager Shanaya Wagh: publications@ornaross.com

Orna Ross: Online Links:

Website: Ornaross.com
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