The Woman on the Bridge: You saw The Girl on the Train. You watched The Woman in the Window. Now meet The Woman on the Bridge

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Charlotte is driving angrily and sees a woman in a drenched wedding gown on a bridge. Her decision to stop and help her will be her fate. Maggie *seems* like a frightened victim. Joseph's family shelter fugitives and transport weapons. Joseph would never ask Winnie to join the fight; but his mother and sisters demand commitment. Will Winnie choose Joseph, and put her own loved ones in deadly danger? Or wait for a time of peace that may never come?

It puts life into perspective as the reader follows the characters through life changing events. People who were very good friends become divided as they choose where their allegiances lie. But is Maggie the best friend Charlotte has always dreamed about, or the nightmare she never saw coming... With so much worry, strain, and genuine anguish, one would assume Winnie's story was a bleak one, yet she remained positive and hopeful. That mindset is what saw her through some desperate situations. Dublin. The 1920s. As war tears Ireland apart, two young people fall in love amongst events that will bring tragedy and tough choices as they fight for a better future. The D’Argenios lived simply, and their modest, strict upbringing proved suffocating for their youngest daughter. By the time Gloria turned 14, she wasn’t living with her parents anymore. The outward rebellion and inward restlessness proved too much for parent and child. She’d been sent to an orphanage in New Haven called Highland Heights, where family visits were said to number twice a month at best. She was allowed to leave for holidays and stayed with Janet over Thanksgiving.

Despite her misgivings, the alluring young man, Joseph Burke, draws Winnie into politics that she’d rather avoid. Not because she doesn’t want freedom: she does. But even more, she wants to keep her family safe – and her father has already been shot. But there is no safety for anyone. Her father had been an innocent bystander, and Winnie’s troubles escalate as she becomes drawn into Joseph’s family and their struggle for a republic. But Kahane’s philosophy influenced modern-day thinking about Israel more than people wish to admit. Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ever-increasing turn to the hard right, with its entrenched belief that Jews have no future outside Israel and that countries like Iran can be compared to Nazis, parrots many of Kahane’s most incendiary talking points. As the scholar Shaul Magid, author of a forthcoming book on Kahane, wrote in 2016, “These were not the views of much of Zionism for most of its history but today it has arguably become almost normative among members of the coalition.” Most newspaper readers at that time would have seen this at home or on newsstands and only registered the story’s essential ingredients of lurid tragedy — the image suffused with terror and suspense. The woman is clearly suffering. It would have been their first notice of Estelle Evans, without any clue that her brief life was inextricably linked with the origins of a dark political movement about to unfold. The prose is polished and rich. The characters are passionate, driven, and endearing. And the well-paced, compelling plot is a wonderful mix of familial dynamics, drama, emotion, self-discovery, secrets, revelations, love, loss, heartbreak, courage, duty, grief, passion, and conflict.

See, now this would never happen to me because trust issues like you wouldn’t believe but I mean, really, have these people never heard of Stranger Danger?! Anyway! Later, Agnes, reacting to Winnie’s mother’s description of Markievicz as “an insurgent”, wonders where exactly the family’s sympathies lie. She doesn’t want the marriage between her son and Winnie to go ahead. Winnie tells her boss, Alice Kelley, of Agnes’s disapproval of her. But Alice says that if Winnie loves Joseph, she has to fight for him.

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Charlotte Is a woman who's been Double-crossed by her childhood friend and will do whatever it takes to stay afloat. The added letters within the book were a nice added touch and allowed the reader to see correspondence between the sisters and between Joseph & Winnie. I also began to look at the photographs of the autograph book my grandfather had kept when he was interred during the Civil War. I’d often looked at it as a child and was fascinated by the entries and the drawings although I had no real context in which to place them. Now with the notes I’d made from the remembered stories as well as old family papers, I had a better picture of my grandmother’s life and how meeting my grandfather had changed everything for her.