To Hear a Nightingale by Charlotte Bingham [Paperback: Very Good]

Paperback in Very Good condition (736 pages)

Brought up in small-town-USA by a grandmother who despises her, Cassie McGanns childhood is one of misery and rejection.  Fleeing to New York, she falls in love with handsome Irish racehorse trainer Tyrone Rosse, and when he marries her and takes her back to Claremore, his tumbledown mansion in Ireland, she is happy at last.

Passionately in love as she is, Cassie cant help but find the all-male world of Horseracing rather lonely.  Yet there is much for her to learn, not least about the man she has married.  Tyrones success depends heavily on the whims of wealthy horse owners, men - and women - whose demands are high.  And Cassie must learn to endure the enmity of one in particular, who comes out of her buried past determined to destroy her.

When tragedy strikes, it seems that Cassie must once again face rejection and lose her hard-won security.  But although the chances of success are slim and the cost in personal happiness considerable, she fights against all odds to survive in a world closed against her.