Trying Times

This is an enlightening and touching story of how you can still come out smiling despite all the trials and tribulations of life. Take Cassie; she is holding down three jobs to make ends meet. Then there is Jo; she is struggling with university and part time work, while friend, Gail, faces up to the prospects of redundancy. Meanwhile, young and beautiful Orla appears to have it all, but appearances are deceptive. And with his sixtieth birthday looming, Benny and his wife Deirdre are looking forward to a new found freedom, until a phone call changes all that. This is a multi-layered contemporary tale that will sometimes bring a smile to your face and other times a tear to your eye. Set in a Northern Ireland that is finally at peace – well, almost – Trying Times focuses on the strength and importance of relationships in difficult circumstances, taking up where the author’s well received debut novel Buying Time left off…