Noëlle Harrison
‘Let me tell you the story of an adulteress…’
Broken hearted and bruised by his wife’s infidelity, Nicholas leaves the comfortable life he has known in Dublin for a ramshackle house in rural Cavan, happy to throw himself into a project of restoration and diversion. There, the house seems to speak to him, and he catches glimpses of a presence – a fragile lady in blue, a woman trapped in the memory of one regret, her voice whispering to him.
June Fanning came to Cavan from England in 1941 with her Irish husband, the solid, but unimaginative Robert. She knows she should be happy, grateful for a release from her previous existence in wartime London but June is a stranger in a foreign land, an outsider. And then Robert leaves to fight in the war, leaving June all alone. Outside the house lies the orchard, trees ripe with blood red hearts, and on the other side of it is temptation…
Captivating, compelling and infused with Noëlle Harrison’s exquisite encapsulation of place and period THE ADULTERESS is a haunting novel of marriage, love and the secrets that live through the passage of time.
Appreciation for The Adulteress
The Adulteress is an exquisite novel which fluidly makes the transition from contemporary to wartime Cavan.
The Ulster Tatler
Harrison gives her reader something more subtle to chew on in her thoughtful take on the vagaries of the human heart.
Irish Independent
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