- Welcome to FictionDB, Guest
- | My Account
- | Help
Sheelagh Kelly
Newest Release
Sheelagh Kelly was born in New York in 1948, but now lives with her husband in sub-tropical Queensland. She attended Knavesmire Secondary School for Girls, left at the age of 15 and went to work as a bookkeeper. She has written for pleasure since she was a small child, but not until 1980 were the seeds for her first novel, A Long Way From Heaven, sown when she developed an interest in geneology and local history and decided to trace her ancestors' story, thereby acquiring an abiding fasination with the quirks of human nature. A Long Way From Home was followed by For My Brothers Sins, Erin's Child, My Father, My Son, Dickie and Shoddy Prince, all of which were bestsellers.
Full Series List in Order
The Feeney Family Saga
1 - A Long Way from Heaven (Feb-1999)2 - For My Brother's Sins (Feb-1999)
3 - Erin's Child (Jun-1987)
4 - Dickie (Jul-1999)
Kilmaster
1 - A Sense of Duty (Mar-2000)2 - Family of the Empire (Jan-2002)
3 - A Different Kind of Love (Jan-2003)
Book List in Order: 14 titles
-
Erin's Child
- Jun-1987
- / General Fiction
-
Family ties have united the Feeneys through famine and poverty, but can they withstand success?It is 1875 and the Feeneys have left the squalor of York’s slums behind them. Yet all is not well. Patrick remains a man of simple tastes, increasingly o...
-
Shoddy Prince
- Apr-1996
- / General Fiction
-
A captivating tale of love that cannot be denied set in the tumultuous lead-up to the First World WarBright Maguire â€" poor, beautiful and kind â€" is the youngest member of a large Irish clan. Nat Prince is the illegitimate son of a prostitute, gro...
-
A Complicated Woman
- Mar-1998
- / General Fiction
-
The warm-hearted and much-loved sequel to Shoddy Prince After twenty-two years’ estrangement, Bright Maguire and Nat Prince are joyously reunited and plan to start a new life in Australia. Their daughter Oriel isn’t thrilled by the return of her ...
-
For My Brother's Sins
- Feb-1999
- / General Fiction
-
From an author praised for her “genuinely perceptive portrayals of human relationships,” a historical saga about an immigrant Irish family in Yorkshire (Irish Independent).Summer, 1867: a sudden change in fortune promises to save the Feeneys from...
-
A Long Way from Heaven
- Feb-1999
- / General Fiction
-
The first in the unputdownable and heartbreaking Feeney Family sagas One fateful morning in August 1846, Patrick Feeney surveys his ruined potato crop and despairs. With a delicate wife and their unborn child, he has no choice but to leave Ireland an...
-
My Father, My Son
- Jul-1999
- / General Fiction
-
A magnificent story of love and war for all who enjoy Catherine Cookson He survived the carnage of war. But it was bitter conflict on the home front that tore his life apart…After a year of fighting in the Boer War, Corporal Russ Hazelwood â€" miss...
-
A Sense of Duty
- Mar-2000
- / General Fiction
-
In the first of an extraordinary trilogy of love, tragedy, and hope, there’s a high price to pay for happiness, from the author of the Feeney Family Saga. While her brothers and sisters resign themselves to a life of drudgery, Katheri...
-
Family of the Empire
- Jan-2002
- / General Fiction
-
The son of a Yorkshire coal miner seeks a new life with the British Army in the second novel of this historical family saga. Born and raised in Yorkshire, England, Probyn Kilmaster wants more out of life than to follow his father down the pit. He has...
-
-
A Different Kind of Love
- Jan-2003
- / General Fiction
-
When a veteran of the Great War returns to England, he and his daughters faces a terrible new struggle in this historical family saga. World War I is at its height and Regimental Sergeant Major Probyn Kilmaster is in France, training raw recru...
-
Secrets of Our Hearts
- Jun-2007
- / General Fiction
-
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:""; mso-pad...
-
-
