Kathleen de Burca is a travel writer based in London. The office is the nearest thing she has to a home. When a quick series of blows strips away the props of her life, she is faced with the frightening imperative of change. In her crisis she decides to investigate a true story about a relationship so passionate that it burned its way across the barriers of class and culture -- a scandalous affair between the wife of an English landlord and an Irish servant during the devastation of Ireland''s potato famine. After an absence of thirty years, Kathleen returns to Ireland to research the story and begins a journey that leads her not only into the historical past, but into a reconsideration of the family she fled years ago. While back in Ireland, she meets a lover of her own who presents her with a choice that promises to alter the course of her life. As she moves toward her decision, she calls on the strengths of her identity as a woman, an Irish woman, and a woman who is no longer young. Meanwhile, she brings the story of the long-ago lovers to a denouement as tender as it is tragic. My Dream of You explores the extremes of passion, the depths of loneliness, and the resilience of the human heart.

"A biography with narrative muscle and thrilling historical relevance." -Kirkus ReviewsLegend says that May Duignan was tall with red-gold hair and big blue eyes, and that she was compellingly attractive to men. At 19, she stole her family’s savings and ran away from home in rural Ireland to America, where she worked as a confidence trickster, a thief, a showgirl, and a prostitute, notorious as much for her violence as for her diamond rings. The tabloids dubbed her “The Queen of the Underworld.” Reaching across decades for points of connection, Nuala O’Faolain, the bestselling author of Almost There and My Dream of You, brings sympathetic scrutiny to the understanding of an outlaw experience like no other. 

Upon its original publication in 1996, Are You Somebody? quickly became an cultural sensation in Ireland, sparking an ‘emotional episode in public life in Ireland’. O’Faolain’s striking candour and focus on the long‑silenced experiences of Irish women helped the book become an international bestseller.Are You Somebody? is an extraordinary memoir that explores identity, love and the search for meaning in a changing Ireland. Nuala O’Faolain shares her life with unflinching honesty – her struggles, triumphs and the questions that shaped her journey.This is more than a memoir; it’s a conversation about what it means to live fully, to question deeply and to embrace vulnerability.

Esta es una historia maravillosa llena de mujeres con sofocos. En primer lugar está Rose Barry, una irlandesa de armas tomar de cincuenta y muchos. Rosie está escribiendo Diez Pensamientos para la mitad del viaje, un cuadernito de autoayuda para mujeres estadounidenses de mediana edad. Luego está su arisca pero adorable tía Min, que a sus años está a punto de vivir una aventura al más puro estilo Huckleberry Finn. O Reeny, fiel escudera de Min y una virtuosa manipuladora del sistema sanitario. También Peg y Tessa, amigas de Rosie de toda la vida.Y ya puestos, la cerdita Madre Irlanda y las fantasmas antepasadas de Rosie, en una casa por habitar que nadie esperaba ya. Con cariño, Rosie es un maravilloso tratado femenino y feminista sobre el saber envejecer y sobre el amor y la amistad en las mujeres de mediana edad. Todo lo que ocurre en esta novela es a la vez triste, divertido y, ante todo, generoso y sincero. Una joya inédita hasta ahora en castellano.

Kathleen de Burca is a travel writer based in London. The office is the nearest thing she has to a home. When a quick series of blows strips away the props of her life, she is faced with the frightening imperative of change. In her crisis she decides to investigate a true story about a relationship so passionate that it burned its way across the barriers of class and culture -- a scandalous affair between the wife of an English landlord and an Irish servant during the devastation of Ireland''s potato famine. After an absence of thirty years, Kathleen returns to Ireland to research the story and begins a journey that leads her not only into the historical past, but into a reconsideration of the family she fled years ago. While back in Ireland, she meets a lover of her own who presents her with a choice that promises to alter the course of her life. As she moves toward her decision, she calls on the strengths of her identity as a woman, an Irish woman, and a woman who is no longer young. Meanwhile, she brings the story of the long-ago lovers to a denouement as tender as it is tragic. My Dream of You explores the extremes of passion, the depths of loneliness, and the resilience of the human heart.

"A biography with narrative muscle and thrilling historical relevance." -Kirkus ReviewsLegend says that May Duignan was tall with red-gold hair and big blue eyes, and that she was compellingly attractive to men. At 19, she stole her family’s savings and ran away from home in rural Ireland to America, where she worked as a confidence trickster, a thief, a showgirl, and a prostitute, notorious as much for her violence as for her diamond rings. The tabloids dubbed her “The Queen of the Underworld.” Reaching across decades for points of connection, Nuala O’Faolain, the bestselling author of Almost There and My Dream of You, brings sympathetic scrutiny to the understanding of an outlaw experience like no other. 

Upon its original publication in 1996, Are You Somebody? quickly became an cultural sensation in Ireland, sparking an ‘emotional episode in public life in Ireland’. O’Faolain’s striking candour and focus on the long‑silenced experiences of Irish women helped the book become an international bestseller.Are You Somebody? is an extraordinary memoir that explores identity, love and the search for meaning in a changing Ireland. Nuala O’Faolain shares her life with unflinching honesty – her struggles, triumphs and the questions that shaped her journey.This is more than a memoir; it’s a conversation about what it means to live fully, to question deeply and to embrace vulnerability.

Esta es una historia maravillosa llena de mujeres con sofocos. En primer lugar está Rose Barry, una irlandesa de armas tomar de cincuenta y muchos. Rosie está escribiendo Diez Pensamientos para la mitad del viaje, un cuadernito de autoayuda para mujeres estadounidenses de mediana edad. Luego está su arisca pero adorable tía Min, que a sus años está a punto de vivir una aventura al más puro estilo Huckleberry Finn. O Reeny, fiel escudera de Min y una virtuosa manipuladora del sistema sanitario. También Peg y Tessa, amigas de Rosie de toda la vida.Y ya puestos, la cerdita Madre Irlanda y las fantasmas antepasadas de Rosie, en una casa por habitar que nadie esperaba ya. Con cariño, Rosie es un maravilloso tratado femenino y feminista sobre el saber envejecer y sobre el amor y la amistad en las mujeres de mediana edad. Todo lo que ocurre en esta novela es a la vez triste, divertido y, ante todo, generoso y sincero. Una joya inédita hasta ahora en castellano.