If you are looking for the perfect gift for the bookworm in your life, The Wounded Heart by Galway writer Barbara McKeon is the perfect pick.
The book follows Julia Swann, who has a brilliant career as a television journalist, but has never recovered from the tragic death of her first love, Emmet. She is now married, her husband Jeffrey Jameson being much older and a multi-millionaire hotelier. He is estranged from his youngest son, so Julia has never met Allan, who has been living and working abroad as a doctor with an international medical charity.
When Allan comes back to Dublin on sick leave from war-torn Syria, he is immediately attracted to the woman his father has married, and she – she is aghast to find – to him, not least because her wounded heart sees a startling resemblance to her first true love Emmet. But she must crush this passion that threatens to engulf her. She must not allow herself fall in love with her stepson. Or is it too late?
This is the second novel from McKeon, an award-winning writer and journalist based in Kinvara. During her career she has written 11 radio plays and three television dramas produced by RTE, and has published dozens of shorts stories. She has worked with the Irish Press, the United Nations, national and local newspapers, and the Galway Advertiser.
The book is available at the Galway Advertiser offices, all good local bookshops, and online at https://www.amazon.de/dp/B0DLVTKNQM.
Her first novel, Unforgiven, is also available on Amazon.
