Michael: THE SEQUEL TO Norah's Children

by Ann O'Farrell

England, 1925. Three-year-old Michael is the youngest of Norah and Brendan Kelly's five children, who are left orphaned by their mother and abandoned by their father in Ann O'Farrell's earlier work, Norah's Children.Michael, the "lost" child, is separated from his brothers and sisters. His adoptive father gives him away to an elderly spinster sister as financial insurance for her old age. Because of this decision, Michael grows up in a loveless household but is saved from loneliness and isolation by his best friend, Paul.With a Second World War looming, only the perseverance of Mary, his eldest sister, may help the abandoned boy reunite with the Irish family he does not remember in this coming-of-age novel.

316 pages, Paperback

First published January 21, 2008

About the author

Ann O'Farrell is a graduate of Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland, where she studied drama and sociology and later taught dramatherapy. She worked as a dramatherapist, theater director and designer for many years. She and her husband, John, recently retired and emigrated from Dublin to Palm Harbor, Florida, where she has completed her second book about Norah's children titled Michael and is working on her third book, Kitty's Hive.

Reviews

[Jenn · Rating 5 out of 5]

Ann is one of the most masterful storytellers, I have ever had the pleasure to know! Michael is the second book in the Kelly family series.

If you ever get the chance to hear Ann speak, don't pass it up!

[Marianne · Rating 5 out of 5]

must read