Molly Aitken

Twenty years ago, Oona left the island of Inis for the very first time. As the strands of her life come together, she must accept the price we pay when we love what is never truly ours....

A spellbinding, deeply felt debut novel--soaring and poignant--about passion, freedom, motherhood, and the power to shape our destinies. Oona grew up on the island of Inis: a wind-blasted rock off the coast of Ireland where the men went out on fishing boats and the women tended turf fires; where...

BELLETRIST BOOK CLUB PICK IRISH BESTSELLER A fierce, electrifying novel inspired by the true story of the first woman to be condemned as a witch in Ireland In thirteenth-century Ireland, a woman with power is a woman to be feared. Alice, the daughter of a wealthy innkeeper in Kilkenny...

Inspired by the first recorded person in Ireland to have been condemned as a witch, Bright I Burn gives voice to a woman lost to history, who dared to carve her own space in a man's world....