Royal Intrigue Brings Village Secrets Into Winter
Princess Margaret’s Irish visit offers gossip, class tension and historical atmosphere in one contained setup. The village secrets matter because they bring the royal story down to human scale, where status cannot prevent emotional mess. The extra pressure makes the story sharper.
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A House in Winter
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Royal Intrigue Brings Village Secrets Into Winter
Princess Margaret’s Irish visit offers gossip, class tension and historical atmosphere in one contained setup. The village secrets matter because they bring the royal story down to human scale, where status cannot prevent emotional mess. The extra pressure makes the story sharper.
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Set in January 1965, A House in Winter tells the story of the visit of Princess Margaret and Lord Snowden to his sister's home in Abbeyleix, Ireland, when they faced local opposition and IRA petrol bomb attacks that confined them, without electricity, for 48 fraught hours.
As well as the conflict outside the walls, there's plenty within, with Margaret's difficult mother in law gleefully contributing to her disintegrating marriage. Meanwhile in the nearby village local woman Cait has struggles of her own, unable to escape family responsibilities and small town life. Both Margaret and Cait are trapped by their circumstances in this gripping novel, based on fact, that reads as a marriage of The Crown and Maeve Binchy.
Ideal for readers who:
- Look out for fact-based historical fiction about Princess Margaret’s 1965 visit to Ireland.
- Are pulled into royal drama mixed with IRA tension, village life and domestic fracture.
- Respond to atmospheric novels where public scandal and private unhappiness collide.
- Value Irish settings shaped by social pressure, gossip and emotional confinement.
- About The Author
- Emily Hourican is the author of ten novels, including The Glorious Guinness Girls, The Kennedy Affair, The Privileged, The Blamed and The Outsider, one book of non-fiction, How To Really Be A Mother, and a children's book, Murder At The Ivy Hotel. Emily has been an editor and a journalist for over 20 years. Emily was born in Belfast and grew up in Brussels, where she went to the European School along with all the other Eurobrats. She moved to Dublin in 1990 and studied English and History at UCD, then did a Masters in English Literature, also at UCD. She lives in Dublin with her husband, David, and their three children.
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- ISBN
- 9781804442401
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Eriu, (03 September 2026)
- Number of Pages
- 416
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 234 x 153 mm
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