House of Cards: A Novel

House of Cards

Anne Farrelly, seventeen, leaves her birthplace in West Ireland for England, excited for the adventure of study and the possibility of a future job. In the decade that follows, Anne works her way up from a poor job at a struggling English school to a directorship at an Italian firm's Rome offices, all the while grappling with the question of whether she needs to marry to find true fulfilment. Curtayne depicts the concrete problems, perilous decisions, and trying freedoms in the life of a young woman at every turn—romantic, tragic, or comic.