Irene M. Drago discusses ‘Irish Timber’

BANGOR, Maine (WABI) - Irene M. Drago returns to WABI Book Club with “Irish Timber,” a standalone and follow-up novel to “Lavinia Wren and the Sailmakers.”

Summary:

“Irish Timber is a tale of maritime tragedy, unexpected love, and the heartache of war. In the summer of 1931, Susie Rowley travels from the coast of Maine to the coast of Ireland with a band of Yankee scholars. When they reach Dunmore East, they’re moved to investigate the wreck of the Alfred D. Snow, a Thomaston-built ship lost in Waterford Harbour on the southeast coast of Ireland in 1888. Their quest takes a detour, though, when Susie falls for Hugh Larkin, a young medical student from County Wexford. Later, she returns to Dublin and takes a job at the national library working for Dr. Richard J. Hayes. The genius librarian is soon drafted by Irish intelligence to break German codes, and he pulls Susie into his unit because she is a gifted linguist and mathematician, as well. What happens next reads like a spy thriller.”

Drago says the 1888 wreck of the Alfred D. Snow, and the loss of her crew and Captain William Willey off the coast of Ireland, inspired “Irish Timber.”

Drago lives in Bath, the City of Ships. She is the award-winning author of four historical novels, “Daughters of Long Reach,” “The Maine Point,” “Lavinia Wren and the Sailmakers,” and “Irish Timber.”

“Irish Timber” is available to purchase at The Briar Patch and Books-A-Million In Bangor. It’s also available at Oliver and Friends in Waterville, Sherman’s Maine Coast Bookshops, Mockingbird Bookshop in Bath, Gulf of Maine in Brunswick, Fiction in Wiscasset, Bridgton Books, and many other Indie Bookstores and gift shops throughout Maine. Readers can also contact the publisher, Maine Authors Publishing, in Thomaston.