How anyone could read this book and see the adult Farrells as the primary characters is beyond me. Noele Marie Farrell is the embodiment of a teenager, fey, funny, nosy and lively. This book made me love Andrew Greeley and wish he were MY parish priest - and I'm not even Catholic. I saw so much of myself in Noele that I was finally convinced I was a normal girl. I highly recommend this novel.

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very good

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Irish epic

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The proud owners of a construction empire, the Farrells rose from the poverty of Ireland's bogs to the heights of Chicago society. One son is now a priest-and a television personality. Another is an ambitious professor about to run for governor. And there's a granddaughter, the lovely red-haired Noele, fated to destroy the family's glistening veneer of success-and discover their history of betrayal, tortured love, and murder...

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The proud owners of a construction empire, the Farrells rose from the poverty of Ireland's bogs to the heights of Chicago society. One son is now a priest - and a television personality. Another is an ambitious professor about to run for governor. And there's a granddaughter, the lovely red-haired Noele, fated to destroy the family's glistening veneer of success-and discover their history of betrayal, tortured love, and murder...

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Great story - one of Greeley's best. Lots of good Irish intuition, mystery & intrigue, and a story of coming home.

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a Greeley love story

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