Debut novel Dublin Shadows by Crystallite Anne Reilly Brown is now on Amazon. Here is the link - https://amzn.eu/d/4jkxMcj
“Shut up! Do not speak!" They could hear soldiers moving round the house finishing their search. Then an order was barked and two gunshots echoed through the house. The two women in the yard jumped with shock at the shots, wrapped their arms around each other while screaming to the high heavens -
"No! No! Oh God No!"
Dublin, Easter 1916, and all hell is about to be let loose. Newly-weds Joe and Rosemarie Flannigan run a bakery on Thomas Street. Over the next seven years they face agonising choices in the midst of the violence and unrest of the Irish Civil War and War of Independence.
London, a hundred years later, Margaret, Joe and Rosemarie's grand-daughter comes across two pieces of china and a letter written to here mother Marie by the grand-mother she never met. Deciding to spend a week in Dublin, walking the streets of her forbears and searching the archives, she traces the steps of her Dublin family and a remarkable journey through time.
Anne Reilly Brown's powerful debut novel. A compelling and gripping tale set in the true to life setting of Dublin during the Easter Rising and its tragic aftermath. You will not be able to put it down.
