{"product_id":"the-disenchanted-widow-christina-mckenna-9781611099539","title":"The Disenchanted Widow","description":"\u003cp\u003eIt's 1981 and Belfast is burning. So, too, is freshly widowed Bessie Halstone: she burns with a desire to break with her troubled past. With her feckless husband gone, she leaves home hurriedly with her naughty nine-year-old son, Herkie, and not much else. The Dentist, an IRA enforcer, is on her tail. He's convinced that Bessie, with her \"yella hair all puffed up like Merlin Monroe's,\" has absconded with the takings from a bank heist.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut car trouble strands mother and son in Tailorstown, a sleepy Ulster village. Bessie finds temporary work as housekeeper for the handsome and mysterious parish priest.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn the meantime, Lorcan Strong, an artist and a native of the village, is summoned home. He's been shanghaied into forging paintings for the IRA. It's work he cannot refuse; his mother and their business are under threat.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYet things are not what they seem in quirky Tailorstown. There is a \"sleeper\" in the village. But who? Bizarrely, it is young Herkie, due to his childish curiosity, who unravels the mystery and saves the day.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Christina McKenna\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1611099536\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781611099539\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Lake Union Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/27\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 400\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.10h x 5.40w x 1.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRomantic Times\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2013 pg. 60 - Very Good","brand":"Christina McKenna","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48873469772031,"sku":"9781611099539","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-disenchanted-widow-christina-mckenna-9781611099539","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}