A Step Across

By: Laurie Williamson, Chet Williamson

Narrated by: Chet Williamson

A Step Across the sea is what Susanna Cassidy takes when she travels from America to Ireland's County Galway to keep a date made 31 years before between her late sister Julia and Michael Lynch, the Irishman she loved for a few passionate weeks in 1972.

Susanna has promised her dying sister to meet Michael at the time and place ordained decades before. But when she does, he mistakes her for Julia, and Susanna is too overwhelmed by conflicting emotions to tell him the truth. Before she can find the love she seeks, Susanna must take even longer steps - across the chasms of class and religion, of thirty-year-old jealousies and betrayals, and of peace and war in a still simmering, divided Ireland.

©2021 Laurie and Chet Williamson (P)2021 David N. Wilson

Very enjoyable!

I found this book very enjoyable. The characters were interesting and the story was engaging. The narrator did a great job.

Enthralling Tale

Family bonds, secrets and intrigue, rivalries, blood feuds, old love, new love, eternal warfare vs. a chance of peace, however slim, all set against a background of Galway with forays into Derry and elsewhere in Ireland. The narrator is co-author, Chet Williamson, who has a sonorous voice and being himself a fine actor, has a knack for capturing accents and clearly differentiating one character from another. He and co-author, Laurie Williamson, obviously love Irish culture, it’s people and music, and the scenes of sessions in the pub in particular sparkle with authenticity.