Hungry Hill
“New author, Eileen Patricia Curran, delivers a stunning read that is both humorous and gut-wrenching, with characters so real they grab hold of your heart and remain with you long after the story ends. Hungry Hill is right up there with the best of them, and I suspect this gifted author is going to be around for a long time!”
— New York Times bestselling author Charlotte Hughes
A debut novel that explores a renewed kinship and the enduring strength of emotional ties
Grace Cavanaugh is intelligent, kind—and a bit of a wise ass. Lately, though, she’s also something else: completely lost and just a little crazy. Her entire world has collapsed since Valentine’s Day, when her husband died unexpectedly after a romantic dinner celebrating their devotion. With her world turned upside down, she abandons the couple’s gorgeous Victorian mansion and retreats to a cramped apartment with their three dogs in tow. Living in misery, barely finding energy to walk the dogs, Grace succumbs to her sorrow.
Just as she hits bottom, a relative she hasn’t seen in years calls out of the blue. Maggie Reilly, her eighty-six-year-old great aunt who still lives in the house she was born in, has troubles of her own. She desperately needs a family member to take care of her, so she reaches out to Grace hoping the bond they shared decades ago remains strong enough to bring her great niece back home.
Hungry Hill is a story navigating the complexities of love in its many forms and how it endures. It explores our desire to belong to each other and to live a life of connectedness. It also reminds us to keep our sense of humor no matter what life brings, and to never underestimate the power of a great pair of shoes.