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A Measured Thread

By: Mary Behan
Narrated by: Mary Behan
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Summary

Looking back on her life, Maggie O'Connor is rightfully pleased. Fifty years ago, she left Ireland with a single suitcase and a dream. After a long and satisfying career, she is enjoying retirement on her farm in rural Wisconsin - until she falls.

Determined to regain her independence, she hires Isobel, a young woman who is also an emigrant. Helping Maggie clean the house, Isobel finds a cache of letters that Maggie wrote to her parents those many years ago and begins to read them aloud to Maggie.

But the letters contain a secret - one that Maggie has kept for 50 years. A secret that threatens to destroy her life and that of the people around her. With little time left, she must make a choice - give up, or face her past.

A Measured Thread is a powerful story that explores questions of guilt, abandonment, redemption, and the consequences of the choices we make.

©2020 Mary Behan (P)2020 Mary Behan
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I loved this book for many personal reasons but mostly because it took me down my own memory Lane as an immigrant.
In her story, Mary treats with wonderful candour the family choices of an independent accomplished professional woman and the emotions and thoughts that come with looking back at one’s life. A beautiful story with a backdrop of rural Wisconsin;

Beautiful life story of immigration and independence

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