A sequel to her successful first book, 'Can Lily O'Shea Come Out to Play?', this sparkling memoir is a remarkable personal account of the emigrant lives of one Irish couple amongst the hundreds upon thousands forced to leave their homeland in the 1950s.
The book centres of Lily O'Connor's married life to Patty in Dublin, Luton, and Australia, and at the heart is a story about a man who always wanted too much and a woman whose resilience saw her coping courageously, often on her own, with a large family and difficult circumstances.
'Dreams of Hope' is a funny, upbeat story of one feisty, indomitable woman's life in three countries with a man torn between the contentment of family life and the pursuit of ambition and adventure.
