An Irish Country Girl - (Irish Country Books) by Patrick Taylor (Paperback)

About the Book

Presents the story of the early life of Kinky Kincaid, once known as Maureen O'Hanlon, a farmer's daughter growing up in the hills and glens of 1920s County Cork, Ireland, who had a gift for seeing faries, spirits, and the dreaded banshee.

Book Synopsis

An Irish Country Girl is another captivating tale by Patrick Taylor, a true Irish storyteller, from the beloved Irish Country series.

Mrs. Kinky Kincaid is an unflappable housekeeper who looks after two frequently frazzled doctors in the colourful Irish village of Ballybucklebo. She is a trusted fixture in the lives of those around her, and it often seems as though Kinky has always been there.

Nothing could be farther from the truth.

Some forty-odd years before and many miles to the south, the girl who would someday be Kinky Kincaid was Maureen O'Hanlon, a farmer's daughter growing up in the emerald hills and glens of County Cork. A precocious girl on the cusp of womanhood, Maureen has a head full of dreams, a heart open to romance, and something more: a gift for seeing beyond the ordinary into the mystic realm of fairies, spirits, and even the dreaded Banshee, whose terrifying wail she first hears on a snowy night in 1922....

Maureen finds herself torn between love and her fondest aspirations in a journey that sets her on the road to Ballybucklebo--and to the strong and compassionate woman she was always destined to become.

Review Quotes

Praise for the Irish Country series:
"Patrick Taylor has become probably the most popular Irish-Canadian writer of all time." --The Globe and Mail

"Wraps you in the sensations of a vanished time and place." --Vancouver Sun

"The author laces his heartwarming moments with liberal doses of whiskey and colorful Ulster invectives." --Chicago Sun-Times

"Taylor's Ireland is always a pleasure to visit." --Shelf Awareness

"Hilarious and heartwarming." --The Roanoke Times

"Heartwarming . . . The stories, shenanigans, and essential goodness of the doctors and townspeople continue to provide a welcome balm for their souls, and, in these tough times, for ours." --Booklist on An Irish Country Welcome

"This book is written with compassion and hilarity about a community whose inhabitants are as wonderful and loony as any on earth. A grand read from a grand man." --Malachy McCourt, New York Times bestselling author, on An Irish Country Doctor

About the Author

Patrick Taylor, M.D., is the author of the Irish Country books, including An Irish Country Doctor, An Irish Country Village, An Irish Country Christmas, An Irish Country Girl, and An Irish Country Courtship. Taylor was born and raised in Bangor, County Down, in Northern Ireland. After qualifying as a specialist in 1969, he worked in Canada for thirty-one years. He now lives on Saltspring Island, British Columbia.