Saint Helen

If you enjoyed Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan, you will love Saint Helen.

A powerful novel of intense love, faith, and violence, inspired by real events which shook Ireland.

When engineer Anton Quigley arrives in a small southern shipyard to build an offshore gas rig, he falls for teacher Helen Peavoy, a woman of courage in a society ruled by Church and convention. But Helen chooses charismatic publican Ned Rocket, a married Sinn Féin member, and soon faces scandal, courtrooms, and ...