Painful Decisions

From the bestselling author of Best Laid Plans and Sworn to Secrecy comes another spellbinding saga of loves lost and found, deceit and jealousy.

Life in 1920s Belfast is tough for the McGuigans. Tommy, a man traumatised by action in the Somme, exerts a powerful influence over his family with bouts of drunken violence and cruelty. Son Johnny must deal with the shameful consequence of young love, while his sister Louise, a beautiful and hard-working mill girl, has fallen for the educated and handsome Conor O’Rourke – against the wishes of his manipulative mother. But it is Nora, wife to Tommy and mother of Johnny and Louise, whose actions threaten to destroy the very foundation of the McGuigan family when she embarks on a secret relationship of her own.