– PATRON POSTS

Enjoy this patron-exclusive extract from my next novel, A Life Before, publishing later this year, in which WB Yeats writes The Lake Isle of Inisfree.

Enjoy this extract from my next novel, A Life Before, publishing later this year, in which our heroine is faced with a dilemma at her coming out ball--shall she allow herself to be kissed by the old Viceroy, as is the custom... or cause a scandal and ruin her debut? And who is the mysterious "M" in Tommy's engagement book?

Enjoy this extract from my next novel, A Life Before, publishing later this year, in which Maud Gonne has her political awakening when she witness an Irish eviction and comes to some personally uncomfortable conclusions

Enjoy this extract from my next novel, A Life Before, publishing later this year, in which Maud Gonne learns the arts of professional beauty from her great-aunt Mary and is in danger of a proposition from the Prince of Wales, much to her sister Kathleen's distress