About the book: 2020 / A deep, touching and intriguing family drama about an Irish emigrant, an old family home in New England and the dark secret that this house hid for four generations. In 1908, when Bridie was sixteen, she ran away with her lover Tom from her native Irish countryside. The young couple decided to seek their fortune overseas, but Tom was not destined to cross the Atlantic. Pregnant Bridey, still very young, finds herself alone in a strange new world. She does not know that it is she, a poor Irish girl, who will determine the vector of the history of a rich family. Bridey's life is full of dark and romantic secrets that she stubbornly keeps to herself, but the owners of the house also have their own skeletons in the closet. The novel, spanning an entire century, tells the story of how, by being late in making decisions, in speaking frankly, a person risks remaining on the sidelines of life, forever late and stuck in the past..