All the Dear Faces

First winner of the Boots Romantic Novel of the Year Award (1988). At the centre of this story are three young women to whom life seems to offer every opportunity during the early years of the twentieth century.. Ambitious Mara O'Shaughnessy seizes her chance to marry James Osborne, heir to Lacy Hemingway Osborne's fortune...Caitlin O'Shaughnessy - Mara's sister - risks her death for women's rights, spurning the man who loves her...Dutiful Elizabeth Osborne, Lacy's granddaughter, must choose between the man everyone expects her to marry and her secret passion for her brother-in law...All three women seem set for happiness - until World War I shatters their lives.