A Measured Thread: Large Print Edition

Fifty years is a long time to keep a secret.Looking back on her life Maggie OConnor 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. Determined 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.But 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. A Measured Thread is a powerful story that explores questions of guilt abandonment redemption and the consequences of the choices we make.