Kathleen Curtin

Patching Time Kathleen Curtin

An irresistible tale of intrigue and suspense! PATCHING TIME takes us into the heart of contemporary rural Ireland where money lending, drugs, blackmail and murder are the back drop to a story about retribution, love and forgiveness. In the small quiet town of Killdoe, the lives of a cleaning woman, Lily Casey, and her daughter are threatened by one shop keeper's obsession with vengeance for what she perceives as past wrongs to her family. Will Sheila O'Connell succeed in her twisted quest or can Henrietta Bontemps, an outsider bearing tragic memories from her own childhood in France during World War II, help to turn the tide of events? The answer may lie in The Old Forge, a cottage that Henrietta is renovating and whose ghosts stir up memories of Lily's ancestors during former Irish wars. Time, however, is neither on Henrietta nor Lily's side, and nothing is beyond Sheila O'Connell's contorted mind in her search for revenge.