Beautiful AffairFrom the early days of his music with Stocktons Wing to his time training at Ballymaloe Cookery School, food and music have been parallel lines that have kept Mike Hanrahan on track his entire life. Mike Hanrahan, cook and teacher, songwriter and musician, takes us back stage and into the kitchens of a bohemian, international and surprisingly foodie group of Irish household names, including Ronnie Drew, Finbar Furey, Maura OConnell, Leslie Dowdall,

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and a girl named Amberly before she became queen

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The fate of Roan Matheson’s family depends on how quickly he can find his runaway sister and persuade her to return to her betrothed

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—Washington Post“Reading The Next Queen of Heaven is like hanging on to the back of an out-of-control carnival ride—terrifying

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First published in 2017

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