Spanning the years between the Wars, this is a novel about betrayal & a troubled Ireland. But most of all it speaks of the women who unite against the violence that is threatening their peace. "An absorbing tale with the unique lilt and expansiveness of Irish storytelling." - Booklist. Crowley was born in the Liberties area of Dublin in 1927 to a Brighton-born father and an Irish mother.She wrote a memoir of her childhood, A Dublin Girl: Growing Up in the 1930s.