Abstract:

Katie Bowen and Ronan O’Hanlon are love’s young dream. They date and after a bad start fall head over heels in love. On the night she wins the Rose of Tralee festival Ronan goes on bended knee under the moonlight and proposes to her. Her life turns around from this day forward. They have a three day wedding and honeymoon in Geneva and build a beautiful new home on the farm. They soon have a family and live an idyllic life on tragedy strikes. This is a tale of supernatural love. 

Genre: Fiction, Supernatural Love

Book Review The Kerryman Newspaper April 15th 2009 p20

Sweet Tale of a Rose by Marisa Reidy

The supernatural love of a fictional Rose of Tralee is the subject of a new book. Always and Forever: Katie the Rose of Tralee by Annette Dunlea.  

The book described as a sweet Irish tale of two farmer's children falling in love and marrying is set in Tralee in the 1980s and centres on Katie's coming of age. She wins the Rose of Tralee festival and on that night her boyfriend goes on bended knee and proposes. It is the beginning of the rest of her life. They marry and a terrible fate falls on the family. The book costs €11.31 in paperback or download from www.alwaysroseoftralee.synthasite.com for €3.70.