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Product Description You can take the girl out of Ireland... Izzie Silver -- a warmhearted Irishwoman with a mane of chestnut hair and a zest for life -- is a New York success story, a highly successful booking agent at a top-notch modeling agency. But while she dreams of starting an agency for plus-sized models, at heart she's still the convent schoolgirl from the exquisite Irish coastal town of Tamarin. Which is why falling in love with a married man is something Izzie couldn't possibly imagine herself doing -- until it happens. And it's something she feels she could never tell her beloved family....but you 'll never take Ireland out of the girl. Meanwhile, back in Tamarin, there's heartache, too. Izzie's aunt Anneliese is trying to hide her pain at her husband's betrayal of their marriage. And Lily -- family matriarch and still feisty despite being nearly ninety -- is taken ill. In her hospital bed, she reveals a tantalizing hint of a secret she has kept for decades, from her time as a 1930s servant girl at the local big house, before she ran off to London during World War Two to train as a nurse. Will the family be torn apart by the secrets they can't reveal...or will they have the courage to share their heartbreak and their joy? From Booklist Izzie Silver, a New York model booker, longs to change the fashion world’s fixation on sickly thin beauties with an agency representing plus-sized models. She also longs to be with the love of her life, but he is married and unwilling to upset the world he has created for his sons. When her grandmother falls ill, Izzie returns to her hometown of Tamarin, Ireland, to weigh her choices. Kelly intertwines Izzie’s struggles with flashbacks of her grandmother’s life as a nurse during the London Blitz and her forbidden love for a young officer, and with scenes from the life of Izzie’s aunt, Anneliese, who is devastated by an affair between her husband and best friend. Kelly, author of Past Secrets (2006), crosses generations and continents to tell a sweeping, if uneven, story of love and betrayal. Readers will enjoy delving into the connections between the characters’ corresponding experiences. --Aleksandra Walker Review "Cheerful...totally believable." -- Rosamunde Pilcher"Cathy Kelly knows exactly what women want." --Publishers Weekly"A must for Kelly's many fans; a warm and moving read." --Daily Mail (U.K.) About the Author Cathy Kelly is the Irish bestselling author of twelve other novels, many of which have been number one bestsellers in the UK, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand. She lives in Ireland with her husband and twin sons. In 2005 she was appointed an ambassador for UNICEF Ireland. Contact her on Twitter at @cathykellybooks or follow her on Facebook or at CathyKelly.com. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. one The New Mexico sun was riding high in the sky when the Zest catalog shoot finally broke up for lunch. Izzie Silver stood up and stretched to her full five feet nine inches, glorying in the drowsy heat that had already burnished the freckles on her arms despite her careful application of SPF 50 sunscreen. Truly Celtic people -- with milk-bottle skin, dots of caramel freckles and bluish veins on their wrists -- only ever went one color in the sun: lobster red. And lobster red was never going to be a fashionable color, except for early stage melanomas. It was her second day on the shoot and Izzie could feel her New Yorker-by-adoption blood slowing down to match the sinuous pace of desert life. Manhattan and Perfect-NY Model Agency, who'd sent her here to make sure nothing went wrong on a million-dollar catalog shoot involving three of their models, seemed a long way away. If she had been in New York, she would have been sitting at her desk with the rest of the bookers: phone headset on, skinny latte untouched on her desk and a stack of messages piled up waiting for her. The