Miss McVey Takes Charge (eBook, ePUB) - Wilkinson, Sheena
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Yorkshire,1936. April McVey is in charge of True Minds Marriage Bureau, trying to find happy futures for the lovelorn of Easterbridge, while the menace of fascism marches through the country.
After two years of matchmaking, she thinks she has seen it all. But when an old friend arrives from Ireland, with a broken heart that's well beyond April's experience, and then a young nun asks her to find a match for her lonely brother, the consequences are shattering.
And as political turmoil reaches their own community, will April have the courage to take charge and do the right thing?

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Yorkshire,1936. April McVey is in charge of True Minds Marriage Bureau, trying to find happy futures for the lovelorn of Easterbridge, while the menace of fascism marches through the country.

After two years of matchmaking, she thinks she has seen it all. But when an old friend arrives from Ireland, with a broken heart that's well beyond April's experience, and then a young nun asks her to find a match for her lonely brother, the consequences are shattering.

And as political turmoil reaches their own community, will April have the courage to take charge and do the right thing?

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Described in the Irish Times as 'one of our foremost writers for young people', Sheena Wilkinson has won numerous awards for her eleven novels, including the Children's Books Ireland Book of the Year for Grounded in 2013. Her historical trilogy about young women coming of age in early twentieth-century Ireland has been widely praised for its 'formidable narrative and ... acute sense of historical justice' (Belfast Telegraph). Her short stories and memoir essays have won or been shortlisted in many competitions, including the Fish and the Bridport, and she was awarded a Major Award from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland in 2012. Miss McVey Takes Charge is her second novel for adults, and the much-anticipated sequel to Mrs Hart's Marriage Bureau (HarperCollins, 2023)Sheena is a Royal Literary Fund Fellow, and teaches writing at postgraduate level at Trinity College Dublin, as well as in settings ranging from prisons to healthcare settings to schools. She mentors on the Irish Writers' Centre's National Mentoring Programme and is an Arvon tutor. Sheena lives by the shores of Lough Neagh with her husband, stepson and two dogs.