Homecoming - Cathy Kelly (2010)

Eighty-three-year old Eleanor returns to Dublin from New York after the death of her husband. She moves into Golden Square and becomes drawn into the lives of some of the residents. Actress Megan is on the run from the paparazzi after she had an affair with a co-star - a very married Hollywood legend. She moves in with her no-nonsense aunt Nora, the local chiropodist. Rae, who works in the local tearooms and volunteers with a community welfare group, is about to come face-to-face with a painful secret from her past. And just as Connie starts coming to terms with the fact that at nearly 40 she's highly likely to be single for life, her more glamorous and younger sister Nicky gets engaged and she befriends the young girl next door who has a lovely widowed father. With homespun wisdom from Eleanor's mother's recipe book used to start each chapter, this has the usual well-drawn and touching characters that Kelly fans know so well.

Irish author Cathy Kelly has another book out towards the end of 2010. Called Homecoming, the summary says: "Golden Square is a pretty Victorian garden square tucked away in the city, where a group of women live side-by-side. Rae Kerrigan, mother of three grown-up sons, runs the square's tearooms, Titania's Palace. Connie O Callaghan, a good-humoured teacher who lives with her younger sister, has a vision of the perfect man that no real man could ever live up to. Everyone believes that she's professionally single, but if so, why does she curl up with romantic novels at night in a pink bedroom bedecked with fairy lights? Into this settled world arrive two new residents: Mrs Levine, a mysterious elderly American lady and Megan Flynn, a beautiful, young British actress who has just had an affair with the married star of her latest movie. Like magic, their arrival signals huge change for all of the women in Golden Square."

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