Publisher's Synopsis
Hannah, May and Eleanor are sisters. Their early life in Dublin, with their middle-class parents, has prepared them for a comfortable future of marriage, children and servants. Further north, Mary and Cecilia are also sisters. They are struggling to make a living in the linen mills of Belfast, amid rising political tension. The lives of all the sisters are destined to unfold in ways that none of them could ever have imagined, against the backdrop of the rapidly changing Ireland of the late nineteeth century.
