Worlds apart - J Cairney

In the hurly burly of a Glasgow quayside, while the city celebrates the relief of Mafeking, two families - the Keiths and the O'Neils -share a brief moment of destiny. The Keiths, with their level-headed father, their headstrrong daughter and dutiful sons, are a prosperous merchant family, fiercely Scottish-Protestant, proud of their heritage and ready to fight for their beliefs. The O'Neils, with their stapping sons and dark eyed daughers, are from Catholic Ireland's poor. Both families share the same vision: to escape the rigours of the past and to seek a new life. When the two families' paths cross it is to the tune of love. Denis O'Neil falls hopelessly in love with Tina Keith only to have the world come between their true destiny. From VE Day to the 1990s, Worlds Apart is a book of history and of family, an epic of Ireland and Scotland, New Zealand and America. It is a powerful novel about passion, hope, jealousy and love.