INTRODUCING
Christina Holloway
AUTHOR OF
WHISPERS ACROSS A SEA
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Whispers Across A Sea is a compelling novel that traces three generations of Lucie’s Anglo-Irish family as they navigate the nuances of life in their adopted country of Ireland. Within the home, the family’s Irish servants make sure the lives of the Youngs remain comfortable while silently observing their employers’ detachment from the realities of life in Ireland—a country where a lengthy, violent, and divisive struggle is beginning. How long will the Youngs be able to close their eyes to the shifting world outside their door?
Based on a true story, Christina Holloway’s carefully researched and vividly imagined historical novel opens a window into Ireland in the late 1800s—a time of vast privilege, inequality, turmoil, and change.
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About
Christina Holloway is a leader in environmental education and land conservation in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her passion for environmental activism began in April 1970, when she pushed her four-month-old son in a stroller in the first ever Earth Day march. Christina resides on the Stanford University campus with her husband, a retired professor and founder of the Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at the Graduate School of Business. They have three children and seven grandchildren.
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Testimonials
Georgia Hunter
“Inspired by the stories of her ancestral past — those shared and unearthed—Christina Holloway takes us back in time and across generations in this tender, colorful reimagining of her Anglo-Irish roots.”
Georgia Hunter, author of We Were the Lucky Ones
Peter Stansky
“I just finished reading “Whispers Across a Sea” with a great deal of pleasure and interest. I think you succeed admirably in telling a “true” story in fictional form and making the characters come alive. And it is a vivid picture of what it was like to be Anglo-Irish in the late 19th Century.”
— Peter Stansky is a Professor of History at Stanford University
Robert Pogue Harrison
“The narrative flows like a stream into an Irish world of the past full of color, spirit, and a medley of distinctive characters. As one family’s story intermingles with its surrounding local and national histories, a bygone time comes alive on the page as if by magic or incantation.”
— Robert Pogue Harrison is a Professor of Literature at Stanford University
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