Homecoming Kelly, Cathy

Four women. One Irish town. A tangled web of secrets waiting to unravel. When Jessie returns to Golden Square after years away, she's hoping for a fresh start — but the past has a way of catching up. Her mother Eleanor is hiding behind decades of silence. Rae's seemingly perfect marriage is cracking at the edges. And Connie, the wise café owner, knows more than she's letting on. Cathy Kelly writes about homecomings the way they actually happen — messy, emotional, and never quite what you expect. This is warm, smart contemporary fiction about the lives women live behind closed doors, the friendships that hold us together, and what it really means to come home. If you love Maeve Binchy or Marian Keyes, this hits the same sweet spot.