Great Aunt Matilda's Inner Secrets

About the Book

This novel traces the life of Matilda D’ Courcy (Tilly), a farm girl in Ireland who migrated to America in the Gay Nineties. She married a New York City policeman, Harry Millar, and was intent on becoming a modern American woman.

Involved in a dangerous murder investigation she suddenly returned to her homeland and waited for her beloved husband who never arrived. She struggled to re-adjust to living in the past century culture after her exposure to the freedom of the new world in America.

About the Author

Eileen McFetridge spent many summer months researching in Northern Ireland and Eire in the 1990’s. Fascinated by a photo she was given of her young great aunt Matilda, Eileen found little date to prove Matilda’s migration to America. Descendants could not remember the city in which she settled. After years of really trying to substantiate facts Eileen decided to blend history and fiction into a novel. Eileen has always lived on Long Island, N.Y. and taught in public schools in New York City and suburbs. She set her novel there and in the quiet country towns of Northern Ireland.