Noëlle Harrison Books in Order

Nearly twenty years after her sister Beatrice disappeared, artist Eithne still struggles with the damage left in their family. A stranger’s arrival renews her search for answers, threatening to reveal the secret that shadowed her sister’s life.

Christina flees an unhappy family life with her youngest child and travels to Canada in search of the mother who abandoned her. Encounters abroad and memories of Ireland force her to confront her own motherhood and a concealed family truth.

Fleeing his wife’s infidelity and their Dublin life, Nicholas buys a neglected house in rural Ireland and begins renovating it. Untraceable voices emerge as he works, suggesting the refuge he hoped for holds a troubling life of its own.

Exiled to an island by her father, Emperor Augustus, Julia reflects on the desires and relationships that led to her downfall. This imagined account of her life explores forbidden love, sexual freedom and the search for intimacy under imperial power.

In 1989, Joy seeks the mother who gave her up, while Lewis searches for a lost love rooted in 1960s London. Their journey to Ireland uncovers intertwined histories that challenge their understanding of family, identity and belonging.

Nurse Emer arrives on a remote Maine island to care for reclusive Susannah and discovers letters connected to her sister’s death. As their trust grows, local hostility reveals that uncovering the family’s past may carry dangerous consequences.

After her husband disappears at sea, Lily discovers a threatening message that exposes a hidden past. Traveling from Maine to his Irish hometown, she meets secrecy and hostility while trying to understand the man she married and the life he concealed.

Returning to Ireland to nurse her dying mother, Mairead accepts a final request to discover what happened to her grandmother. A photograph and necklace lead her to America, uncovering a murder accusation and secrets that could endanger her own future.

After her mother’s death, Iris accepts an aunt’s invitation to an Irish family house. Discovering the diary of another aunt who drowned years earlier draws her into a mystery of jealousy, betrayal and the silence surrounding that final summer.

Constance questions her husband’s apparent suicide, knowing he had another woman and argued with her shortly before dying. Investigating for her daughter’s sake exposes further secrets, including the possibility that the teenager knows more than she has admitted.

Eighteen-year-old Barbara leaves Ireland’s painful memories to work as an au pair, then accompanies her employers to southern France. A summer of awakening desire exposes disturbing tensions within the family and leads to consequences she cannot foresee.