Fran Brady

The Hidden Dimensions of Cathy Campbell Fran Brady

Sometimes life brings you to a crossroads, there is the opportunity and the temptation to look back. In this her second novel of literary fiction Fran Brady returns to intrigue us with another story speaking of love and life. After a choral festival in 1985, Cathy, a sheep farmer's daughter from south of the border, encounters Mark, a proverbial Adonis, they having not seen one another since their boarding school days in Northern Ireland. Cathy, now living in Glasgow, is at a crossroads in her life having just broken up with her Scottish boyfriend. Mark's charm pours balm over her broken heart. A chance meeting re-ignites her feelings for her old boyfriend, a hippy and activist, like herself. Despite Cathy's doubts, her mother, Beryl insists that securing a suitable husband like Mark is more important than love. Will the memory of her lost love in Scotland fade away and the heroism once displayed on protest lines lie redundant and concealed? Will the chameleon skin that hides the real Cathy crack and unsettle the everyday tempo of life?