Retired Sponsored Programs employee Patricia Hopper Patteson's second novel Corrib Red has been released by Arizona-based book publisher Cactus Rain Publishing. Set in the late 19th century this is the second novel in the continuing story about the O’Donovan family. Amid agitation for home rule, Hopper tackles the challenges faced by two young O’Donovan women in 19th century Ireland.
The affluent O’Donovan’s are mostly removed from simmering tensions at their rural estate Kilpara on Lough Corrib. Change intrudes upon their lives when Grace O’Donovan welcomes her older sister Deirdre home after her year abroad. Grace expects to find her sister worldlier, more sophisticated following her sojourn in Europe. Instead, Deirdre is moody and listless. Unbeknownst to Grace, Deirdre is concealing a well-guarded secret. When their childhood friend and neighbor Cecil Sloane discovers Deirdre’s hidden past, he demands her hand in marriage in return for his silence. A price so dear it shakes the O’Donovan family to its core, tests Grace’s courage and loyalty, and threatens her very survival.
Patricia Hopper Patteson, a native of Dublin, Ireland, resides in West Virginia. She received a B.A. and M.A. from WVU. She also received honors from WVU and numerous awards from the annual West Virginia Writers’ competition. Her fiction and non-fiction have been published in newspapers, magazines, reviews, and anthologies.
Corrib Red was released March 17, 2017. Patricia Hopper Patteson will be available to sign copies of her novel at the WVU bookstore Saturday (April 8) from noon until 3 p.m. Her first novel Kilpara is also available at the WVU bookstore.
For more information visit: http://www.patriciahopperpatteson.com.