Falling for a Dancer Author:Deirdre Purcell If the bus hadn't broken down that August afternoon on the road between Dublin and Cork City, Elizabeth Sullivan would never have met George Gallaher, a traveling actor of infinite charm and ruinous weakness; she would not have been forced to marry, nor found herself trapped far from home with a man she could not love. This mismatch results in ... more »tragedy - for Elizabeth, having experienced physical love, cannot resist when again it appears unexpectedly in her life.
Set in the thirties and forties on the ferociously beautiful landscape of the Beara Peninsula in West Cork, this is the story of a passionate woman whose intense capacity for joy, mocked by fate and by the restrictions society imposes on her, finds ultimate release and fulfillment in a way which surprises even herself.« less