A Measured Thread - Mary Behan

\n \nFifty years is a long time to keep a secret.\n \nLooking back on her life, Maggie O'Connor is rightfully pleased. Fifty years ago she left Ireland with a single suitcase and a dream. After long and satisfying career, she is enjoying retirement on her farm in rural Wisconsin -- until she falls. \n \nDetermined to regain her independence, she hires Isobel, a young woman who is also an emigrant. Helping Maggie clean house, Isobel finds a cache of letters that Maggie wrote to her parents those many years ago and begins to read them aloud to Maggie.\n \nBut the letters contain a secret, one that Maggie has kept for fifty years. A secret that threatens to destroy her life and that of the people around her. With little time left, she must make a choice -- give up, or face her past. \n \nA Measured Thread is a powerful story that explores questions of guilt, abandonment, redemption, and the consequences of the choices we make.\n