Nuala and Her Secret Wolf by Cora Harrison

Before going on to become a writer, author Harrison used to work as a school teacher. She is the native of Cobh, County Cork, located in Ireland, and has experienced a lot of success in her writing career. Jenny s diary makes the past spring vividly to life and provides insight into the entire Austen family especially the beloved Jane.Cora Harrison is one of the noteworthy authors from Ireland, who is well known all over the world for writing highly successful novels based on the mystery, thriller, children’s books, and adult genres. What s a poor orphan girl to do? In this delicious dance between truth and fiction, Cora Harrison has crafted Jenny s secret diary by reading everything Jane Austen wrote as a child and an adult, and by researching biographies, critical studies, and family letters. Should it become known, it would bring scandal not only to her, but also to the wonderful Austen family. So when Jenny falls utterly in love with Captain Thomas Williams, who better than Jane to help her win the heart of this dashing man? But is that even possible? After all, Jenny’s been harboring a most desperate secret. At fifteen, Jane is already a sharp observer of the customs of courtship. When shy Jenny Cooper goes to stay with her cousin Jane Austen, she knows nothing of the world of beautiful dresses, dances, secrets, gossip, and romance that Jane inhabits. ‘An excellent historical novel with a most original leading character… And when Mara, a woman appointed by King Turlough Don O’Brien to be judge and lawgiver to the stony kingdom, came to investigate, she was met with a wall of silence… His body lay exposed to the ravens and wolves on the bare, lonely mountain for two nights…Īnd no one spoke of him, or told what they had seen. But one man did not come back down the steeply spiralling path. On the first eve of May, 1509, hundreds of people from the Burren climbed the gouged out limestone terraces of Mullaghmore Mountain to celebrate the great May Day festival, lighting a bonfire and singing and dancing through the night, then returning through the grey dawn to the safety of their homes. It was also home to an independent kingdom that lived peacefully by the ancient Brehon laws of their forebears. In the sixteenth century, as it is now, the Burren, on the western seaboard of Ireland, was a land of grey stone forts, fields of rich green grass and swirling mountain terraces.

Nuala and Her Secret Wolf by Cora Harrison