O'Hara

About the Book

Nestled in the midst of green pastures, lakes and stunning mountains, CONNEMARA/IRELAND provides the perfect setting for this tale. O’Hara tells the tragic life story of an Irish physician who lives secluded from people and the world on the mysterious ISLAND OF ARAN...about his beautiful but wicked wife SUSAN, daughter of a poor traveling tinker, and her gipsylike nurse and Confidante MIRA...why, in the mystic family Chateau KYLEMORE she betrays her husband with handsome, but ruthless English Aristocrat, EARL TELFORD, and manages to blame and mark O’HARA for the murder of her lover, who is killed on the O’Hara estate...and how, one day, when a family disaster leaves O’Hara ruined, he is found drunk in a bar in the Harbor Town of GALWAY by the CAPTAIN of the BLACK EIRE SHIP, who takes him to his house on the Island of Aran, where he lives the life of a lonely man with nothing left but solitude and alcohol...until one day, when a young woman visits the Island and lets O’Hara find out that twelve years of seclusion could not erase his feelings after all.

About the Author

Alpha de Monte was born and raised in Europe. She is the author of four novels It Began in Cannes, She Followed Him to Ireland, O’Hara, and In Return For...and works currently on a novelette The Doll and the Old Man. The artist lives with her husband Robert James Campbell in their country house in Woodland Hills and Ranch in the San Diego mountains of California.