Open Road releases Jeanne Charters’ third novel in the Daughters of Ireland trilogy, Silk Stocking!

Three generations of Irish American women strive to succeed in a time of great bias, prejudice, and social stigmata in this historical trilogy of perseverance: Shanty Gold, Lace Curtain, and the finale, Silk Stocking.

Mary Boland suffered aboard a coffin ship headed for Boston to escape the Irish famine of 1849. Her daughter, Nellie, against all odds, graduates from college when few women could. Then a fate-filled visit to Dublin changes the wind in Nellie’s sails… and those of her daughter.

Love undaunted. Evil incarnate.

“People sometimes wonder where a character comes from, asking, ‘When did you think up Mary Boland anyway?’ For me, Mary Boland was a magical name I heard throughout my childhood from my mother and aunts. She was my great-great-grandmother. There were no pictures of her and no records of her accomplishments, but she came to me in dreams…a young girl with curly red hair, riding her horse along the Irish seacoast.

“‘Tell my story,’ she whispered.

“In her first iteration, she was the star of a manuscript called Daughters of Ireland. Mary was the first in three generations of women. Writing class instructors and published authors alike told me, ‘Each of these women deserves her own book.’ They were right. So, I started over and told Mary’s story in Shanty Gold. Next came Nellie Kelly’s story, Mary Boland’s daughter, in Lace Curtain. Silk Stocking brings three generations together when Nellie gives birth to Kathleen. These women are family to me and I am thrilled to see their stories in print. Enjoy!”

Jeanne Charters is also the author of a humorous memoir, Funny, isn’t it? and Yellow, a scathing indictment of television and politics torn from Jeanne’s years as a broadcast executive.

Published by Open Road Publishing

Represented by Loiacono Literary Agency