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All That I Leave Behind: A powerful, heart-breaking story of family secrets
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By: Alison Walsh
Publisher: Hachette Ireland
Published: January 2016
Pages: 480
Categories: Fiction
Language: English
Available as: Paperback
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ISBN-13: 9781473612839
ISBN: 1473612837
ASIN: 1473612837

It hadn't been Rosie's idea - a 'quaint' wedding at her childhood home in the Irish countryside. Nevertheless she finds herself back in Monasterard after a decade away, with her American fiancé on her arm and a smile fixed to her face. As expected, the welcome from her siblings isn't exactly warm. Mary-Pat, the one who practically raised Rosie, is avoiding her. June is preoccupied with maintaining the illusion of her perfect family. And Pius, who still counts the years since their mother left, is hiding from the world. Each of them is struggling with the weight of things unsaid. In the end, it's their father who, on the day of Rosie's wedding, exposes what has remained hidden for so long. And as the O'Connor siblings piece together the secrets at the heart of their family, they begin to forgive the woman who abandoned them all those years ago.

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