So Much Owed

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January 1918—Dunderrig House, West Cork, Ireland.

Dr Richard Buckley returns to his beloved home of Dunderrig, disillusioned and damaged by the futility of war. At his side is Solange Allingham, his best friend’s widow who has lost everything she ever loved.

Richard’s wife, Edith, is bitter at what she sees as her husband’s betrayal of his country by serving in the British army. After giving birth to twins, she withdraws into a silent world, finally leaving her family for strange new bedfellows. As a result, Solange is obliged to overcome her own heartbreak and become the mother Edith’s children so badly need. The two children, James and Juliet, are inseparable and incorrigible—and the life blood of Dunderrig. As they grow up, they come of age into a world where despite the horrors of the past, war looms large yet again.

From tranquil West Cork to wartime Belfast, from neutral Dublin to occupied France, the twins lives diverge in unforeseen ways as Dunderrig waits anxiously once more for the safe return of its children.