Sean O'Dwyer, the brilliant and tempestuous product of Irish peasant stock and years of dominence by his English guardian, is a vivid personality. His problems are real and moving onces; the many characters who revolve around this central figure all experiencing the fearful force and ruthlessness of his ambitions. His struggle for fame and learning is unexpectedly climaxed in victory and bitter disappointment.
With Every Year abounds in romantic interest of a completely new and refreshing quality. It is the story of the loves of the young Sean O'Dwyer, and of those who loved him. It is their love story as well as his own...poignant and youthfully pasionate.
The action of the book, set in Dublin, London, and an obscure Connemara fishing village, never flags. The incidents which punctuate this novel are clear and incisive, telling of the recklessness and daring confidence of youth, and crowded with human interest.
With Every Day is the second novel of an author who went on to become a bestseller, told with simplicity and charm.
Catherine Gaskin (2 April 1929 – 6 September 2009) historical fiction and romantic suspense.
She was born in Dundalk Bay, Louth, Ireland in 1929. When she was only three months old, her parents moved to Australia, settling in Coogee, a suburb of Sydney, where she grew up. Her first novel This Other Eden, was written when she was 15 and published two years later. After her second novel, With Every Year, was published, she moved to London. Three best-sellers followed: Dust in Sunlight (1950), All Else is Folly (1951), and Daughter of the House (1952). She completed her best known work, Sara Dane, on her 25th birthday in 1954, and it was published in 1955. It sold more than 2 million copies, was translated into a number of other languages, and was made into a television series in Australia in 1982. Other novels included A Falcon for the Queen (1972) and The Summer of the Spanish Woman (1977).
Catherine Gaskin moved to Manhattan for ten years, after marrying an American. She then moved to the Virgin Islands, then in 1967 to Ireland, where she became an Irish citizen. She also lived on the Isle of Man. Her last novel was The Charmed Circle (1988). She then returned to Sydney, where she died in September 2009, aged 80, of ovarian cancer.