Jacqui Broderick

Stella O’Rourke is determined to escape her humble beginnings and when she meets handsome property developer and horse-owner Rory McFadden, she thinks he’s the ticket to the life she wants – so she ignores his arrogance, bad manners and ...

Jaye Carroll

It takes great courage to quit a high-paying job as a designer and set up your own business, but when it works it can be a fantastic, life-changing experience! Unfortunately, it didn’t work for Orla. Her company failed, and now, a couple of yea...

Juliet Bressan

Kate McCabe

Emma Frazer packs up her job in Dublin and flees to Fuengirola in southern Spain, where she finds refuge in a beautiful little hotel right on the beach – Casa Clara. Here she can escape the mounting pressure from her domineering elder sister Trish...

Kathy Rodgers

Leaving Clare

Growing up in the 1950s in Kilnagree, a small village in Co Clare, Rose lives a quiet life. Working part-time in the local pub while helping her grandmother at home, Rose’s only ambition is to marry a decent local lad in Kilnagree.

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Linda Kavanagh

As Caroline Leyden’s wedding to Ken Barnes approaches she wants everything to be perfect and all her family to be there. But a 30-year-old photograph album reveals Gina, an aunt she has never met and Caroline gets the feeling her mother ...

Louise Marley

Isaac van der Straatan chooses the occasion of his daughter Isabel’s birthday party to announce his decision to sell Vanders – his chain of exclusive jewellery stores.

Mairead O'Driscoll

Can a single moment in time alter the course of a life forever? For the Carmody family, it certainly seems so. An interrupted childhood has coloured Laura’s view of life and her dream of having a proper family remains just that – a dream...

Margaret Kaine

Two girls – one street. Two families across a social divide. As a child, Josie Ford, fiery and ambitious, sees from a distance the affluent lifestyle of young Georgina Hawkins, and is filled with envy. But Georgina is lonely, and longs to ex...