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St. Martin's Press
April 2015
On Sale: April 14, 2015
Featuring: Rose; Iris
ISBN: 1250054214
EAN: 9781250054210
Kindle: B00OFJ1JXY
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Women's Fiction
People used to say Iris Bowen was beautiful, what with the
wild weave of her red hair, the high cheekbones, and the way
she carried herself like a barefoot dancer through the
streets of Ranelagh on the outskirts of Dublin city. But
that was a lifetime ago. In a cottage in the west of Ireland, Iris--gardener and
mother to an adopted daughter, Rose--is doing her best to
carry on after the death of her husband two years before. At
the back of her mind is a promise she never intended to
keep, until the day she gets a phone call from her doctor. Meanwhile, nineteen-year-old Rose is a brilliant violinist
at the Royal Academy in London, still grieving for her
father but relishing her music and life in the city. Excited
but nervous, she hums on the way to an important master
class, and then suddenly finds herself missing both of her
parents when the class ends in disaster. After the doctor's call, Iris is haunted by the promise she
made to her husband--to find Rose's birth mother, so that
their daughter might still have family if anything happened
to Iris. Armed only with a twenty-year-old envelope, Iris
impulsively begins a journey into the past that takes her to
Boston and back, with unexpected results for herself and for
Rose and for both friends and strangers. Intimate, moving, and witty, Her Name is Rose is a gorgeous
novel about what can happen when life does not play out the
way you expect.
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