Author Description

In her late 60s Beulah Kingston is still almost as tall, black-haired and headstrong as on her wedding day in 1944, the year Glen Miller - creator of the 'Devil's music' - was killed. Born into a strict Protestant sect (motto: no drinking, no dancing, no doctors), and brought up an innocent in the tiny Irish village of Two Mile Cross, Beulah has more knowledge of the Bible than of her true feelings and desires. Now, as she faces the prospect of hospital and an X-ray for the first time in her life, she finds herself compelled to re-examine the secret passion of her youth and the death of her decent-hearted husband. But what finally triggers the journey into a past shared only by her sister Hester, the ne'er-do-well Danny Fox and the village doctor Joe Costello, is the arrival of her grand-daughter Beccy, the spitting image of the teenage Beulah.