Johnny
Be Good
North
Shore Stories Book 3
by
Bernadette Walsh
Genre:
Women's Fiction, Light Romance
SOMETIMES
A WOMAN DOES WHAT SHE HAS TO DO TO PROTECT HER FAMILY.
Peggy
Lynch has too many children and too much to do. Unlike the pampered
wives in her affluent Long Island suburb, Peggy’s not married to a
doctor or a lawyer. She’s married to an uneducated Irish immigrant
twelve years her junior, and has to work two jobs to help make ends
meet. In between the carpools, the laundry, and the food shopping,
she also has to make sure her youngest son takes his ADHD medicine so
he doesn’t flunk out of high school. Maybe if her lazy husband
would get off his ass and help around the house, she’d have time to
connect with her children and be the type of mother they deserve. But
Peggy lacks that luxury because if it wasn’t for her, the whole
family would fall to pieces.
Years
have passed since Peggy ruled the house and Veronica is no longer her
mother’s obedient little girl. Moving into her childhood home with
her husband and infant twins, she’s starting a new life and should
finally be happy. Right? Wrong.
While
cleaning out her old bedroom, Veronica finds a letter from her
deceased mother. If Veronica were smart she’d burn it and leave her
family secrets buried with the dead. But as her mother so often said,
Veronica’s never been that smart.
She
rips open the envelope and proves her mother right...
The
Girls on Rose Hill
North
Shore Stories Book 2
THREE
GENERATIONS OF WOMEN; THREE GENERATIONS OF SECRETS
Ellen
Murphy spent her childhood in an idyllic house by the sea. A house
surrounded by flower filled gardens and a white picket fence. A house
she fled at eighteen. A house full of secrets.
When
Ellen’s mother Rose, an ex-nun, is diagnosed with terminal cancer,
Ellen reluctantly returns home to care for her and uncovers a clue to
the one secret that has haunted Ellen all her life: the identity of
her father. But that is just one of the many secrets hidden behind
the beautiful facade of the house on Rose Hill.
"The
Girls on Rose Hill is a beautifully written story about the
complicated relationship between three generations of women. It will
touch you, make you laugh, and make you cry. Bernadette Walsh's
subtle use of language, traditions, and manners painted an authentic
portrait of an Irish Catholic family. I loved it."
Cold
Spring
North
Shore Stories Book 1
AN
INNOCENT GIRL IS A DANGEROUS THING
Twenty
years ago Maura Lenihan was the curvaceous red-haired teenager at the
center of a political sex scandal. Today, Maura is a thirty-five year
old hospice nurse who spends her days caring for the cancer-ridden
and comatose and her nights reading romance novels. Her life is
boring and safe and just the way she likes it.
However,
Maura’s safe cocoon is now threatened both by the press’ renewed
interest in the twenty year old scandal and the attentions of her
most recent patient -- a thirty year old Wall Street investment
banker whose black hair and blue eyes are oddly familiar.
I
have always been a bookworm and had always meant to write a novel
“someday.” You know, when I won the lottery and could live in
beach house and feel inspired. Twelve years ago I decided to stop
waiting for my winning lottery ticket and sat down and started
writing. In between work and family obligations, I piled the words on
top of each other until they formed sentences, paragraphs, chapters
and eventually a book. While I’ve hopped around genres, all of my
books to date have a common theme: strong women handling what life
throws at them the best way they can.
My
titles include: Gold
Coast Wives,
The
Girls on Rose Hill,
The
Devlin Witch (Books 1-4 of the Devlin Legacy Series)
,
Cold
Spring, Johnny Be Good, See Me
and
Friends
Forever.
Covers
and other information about my books and my writing can be found on
my website www.bernadettewalsh.com
.
GUEST POST
DEFINING
SUCCESS
BY
BERNADETTE WALSH
At
the dreaded day job, January is review month. It’s
the time of the year when supervisors and co-workers assess my work
for 2019, award me a ratings number and determine my compensation.
For better or worse, at the end of review month I know where I stand.
Good review=more money=success.
If
only my writing life was so clear cut. I’ve
been at the writing game for ten years now, long enough for most
people in my life to know about my second life as a novelist. Friends
often ask me “how’s the writing going?” That seemingly
innocuous questions has some undertones though and I often struggle
to say anything more than “fine.” We live in an achievement
oriented society. From the age of six, we’re conditioned to strive
to be the best: get straight As, be on the honor role, land the lead
in the school play, win that game. And of course the achievement
train continues long after graduation: get into a good college, get
the good job, meet the right guy, live the perfect life. So when
people ask me “how’s the writing?” what I really think they’re
asking is: Are your books in Barnes & Noble? Are they going to
make your book into a movie? Have you made the New York Times
bestseller list? Have you made a million dollars like E.L.James?
Sadly,
the answer to all of those questions remains no. But what does that
mean? Am I a successful writer? By those standards, I am not. Some
might even say I’m
a failure, that I’m just wasting my time. But I love writing. Is
doing something you love the definition of success? And there are
people who’ve read my books who enjoyed them. One reviewer said one
of my books made her cry. Surely having readers love your book is a
viable measure of success.
Maybe
in order to be a successful writer you have to change your definition
of success. Most writers will not sell even a tenth of the number of
books Nora Roberts has sold and most writers will not be best-sellers
-- those are just the sad facts of life. But every day that a writer
sits in her chair and pulls something from deep within her soul that
is unique and beautiful and real, is in my opinion a day that she is
a success. If even one reader can lose themselves in a world that
you’ve
created out of nothing, then you’re a successful writer. Letting
the world define you and prevent you from pursuing your dreams to me
is the real mark of failure.
Bernadette
Walsh writes contemporary and paranormal romance and women’s
fiction and has published seven novels.
http://www.bernadettewalsh.com
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