C.E. Murphy
My great-grandmother's life!
She left Ireland for American when she was really quite young, fourteen or sixteen, travelling with a younger cousin or sibling. She returned to Ireland in her rather lateish thirties, having been a maid--a cook, really, probably--in some rich American's home. She insisted, in fact, on getting an American-style stove, the first of its kind, in the tiny northern Irish village she returned to, because damned if she was going to go back to cooking over a fire after using modern appliances. She got married and banged out four kids in what amounted to the time she had left to do so, but...we have no idea what her life was for the 20 years she was in America. There's some belief she might have been married, but...we don't really know! We don't know why she came back to Ireland, not really! All sorts of stuff like that.
I've often thought of doing a YA historical fiction book about her, in fact, set in New York in the 1880s...
She left Ireland for American when she was really quite young, fourteen or sixteen, travelling with a younger cousin or sibling. She returned to Ireland in her rather lateish thirties, having been a maid--a cook, really, probably--in some rich American's home. She insisted, in fact, on getting an American-style stove, the first of its kind, in the tiny northern Irish village she returned to, because damned if she was going to go back to cooking over a fire after using modern appliances. She got married and banged out four kids in what amounted to the time she had left to do so, but...we have no idea what her life was for the 20 years she was in America. There's some belief she might have been married, but...we don't really know! We don't know why she came back to Ireland, not really! All sorts of stuff like that.
I've often thought of doing a YA historical fiction book about her, in fact, set in New York in the 1880s...
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Do you by any chance have any more cameos or crossover novels in the works? After the... errrrr... "one really tall, and one really cute" FBI agents turn up in Demon Hunts; and then the fun and games of worlds colliding in Easy Pickings (which I seriously LOVED in audiobook), I'm really hoping we get more treats and Easter eggs in future books. Are there current plans for any in the works?
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