About the book

You only get one second chance . . . Mary Maskey has endured so much loss in her twenty-nine years that people call her 'Mary of the Sorrows'. Mary has settled for a humdrum existence, a life lived apart from the crowd. The way she hopes to avoid further grief. Her friends - Penny, Ivan and Adam - seem more together but they are just as troubled. Penny's loneliness, Ivan's cowardice and Adam's duplicity are all signs of lives going off the tracks. When a mysterious American moves in beside Mary, her friends are intrigued but she tries to avoid him. Little can they guess that his wounds run at least as deep as any of theirs, and that his arrival in town will challenge them to face their demons. And it will force Mary to decide if she can take a chance on living again . . . 'Emotionally charged' HEAT 'I loved every page . . . It so impressed me that I will be reading it again.' IRISH MAIL ON SUNDAY 'A delightful rollercoaster of emotion' SUNDAY INDEPENDENT This novel was previously published as Apart from the Crowd