Dark Rosaleen is a story of love, murder and betrayal, of a failed rebellion and a national scandal.Sir William McCauley was appointed Director of the Famine Relief Programme at a time when hunger raged across Ireland and antipathy towards the plight of the Irish infused the politics of Britain. Kathryn, William’s daughter, was forced to join her father, and felt no sympathy until the very scale of the tragedy became all too obvious. Joining the underground, she preached insurrection, stole food for the starving and became the lover of the leader of the rebellion. Known as Dark Rosaleen, the heroine of banned nationalist poem, she was branded both traitor and cause celebré. This is her story.

"Brilliantly original" - Lynda La Plante. Heritage, history, war and romance interweave in the three dramatic storylines of MY DARK ROSALEEN, a family saga of Ireland: 1990 Rosaleen - a middle aged, middle class Englishwoman is languishing in a prison cell on charges of terrorism; 1921 Catherine - an Irish heiress gives up everything to live in the Liverpool dockland slums; 1588 Hugo - a young Spanish boy is plunged into the blood-soaked battles of the Spanish Armada and early 17th century Ireland.