A Kennedy Affair
Powerful historical WW2 fiction about friendship and forbidden passion, inspired by true events
$24.37
- Paperback
480 pages
- Release Date
2 September 2025
Summary
Two powerful families. A changing world.
When Kathleen ‘Kick’ Kennedy left England to return to America, Europe was facing war and Billy Cavendish, future Duke of Devonshire and the man she loves, had told her he could never marry her. Now, in 1943, as London stands a shell of its former self, Kick returns hoping to reunite with Billy - but there are many obstacles ahead.
Lady Brigid Guinness has swapped high fashion and exclusive dinner parties for long shift…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781399733861 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1399733869 |
| Author: | Emily Hourican |
| Publisher: | Hachette Books Ireland |
| Imprint: | Hachette Books Ireland |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 480 |
| Release Date: | 2 September 2025 |
| Weight: | 334g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 34mm |
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With its emotional heft … this is the best of a very fine series * Sunday Independent *
Hourican expertly weaves her elegant fictional magic * The Gloss *
About The Author
Emily Hourican
Emily Hourican is the author of nine novels and one book of non-fiction. Her first novel, The Privileged, was published in 2016, became an instant bestseller, and was short-listed for the Best Popular Fiction Award at the Irish Book Awards that year. She then published three more works of contemporary fiction, the last of which, The Outsider, is being developed as a six-part TV series with Treasure Films, with Emily as screenwriter, supported by Screen Ireland.
In 2019 she began writing historical fiction, and has since published four acclaimed, best-selling historical novels based on the Guinness and Kennedy families.
Emily is also an award-winning editor and journalist with the Sunday Independent, Ireland’s biggest-selling newspaper.
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