Puifín

by Jacqui Smart

Grace Henshall was delighted with the unexpected phone call she received from her daughter, Ginny, the day after her birthday in March 2010. Ginny and her partner were coming for a long visit. Grace was delighted to know her family would all be with her to share time on the idyllic Puifín.
A mysterious note found in an old recipe book leads to the unearthing of a journal written by and Irish rebel, Bernard Padraig Keogh. Further discoveries and events were to turn Grace’s perfect world on its head.
Follow Grace, her family and friends, on their journey from Puifín to England, to Australia and back home, with history, mystery, myths and legends as travelling companions.

273 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 13, 2024

About the author

Jacqui Smart, the eldest of seven children, was born in Melbourne, Australia. Both of her parents were first-generation Australians. When she was six, her family moved to Tasmania. In 1995 she travelled to Ireland where she lived for two years. Her jobs there included setting up a community library in south-west Kerry, working at a sports sock factory making socks and barmaid. Following a return to Tasmania in 1997, she completed a Diploma in Library and Information Services, before moving to England for five years. Amongst the jobs she had there, her favourite was at Cheshire Archives and Local Studies. While working here she obtained a Diploma in Archives and Records Management. In 2004 she returned to Tasmania. After eleven years as a public servant, she relocated to Low Head, a beautiful seaside village in northern Tasmania. She has two sons and five grandchildren.
In Search of Kathleen is her second novel. Heart Urchins was her first novel. She is working on a third novel which is set on a fictional island in Shetland.