Two Ladies From Boston

About the Book

Two Ladies from Boston is an upstairs/downstairs tale of two Irish maids who arrive in hostile Boston in 1920 to the homes of Gertrude Casey and Clementine Talbert. Gertrude and Clee meet through their music and form a friendship that survives Gertrude’s marriage to political boss James Michael Hurley and Clee’s escapades. The story of two cultures, Two Ladies From Boston brings you on a wild ride through the thirties and forties, as Gertrude's husband is re-elected to office from jail and Clee is forced to flee the country for her young fling as a member of the communist party.

About the Author

Elizabeth Howard Hourihan, author of Awakening the Silence and Two Ladies from Boston, assures the reader that she is the daughter of a Protestant Yankee father and an Irish American mother, thus impartial in viewing Boston’s cultural standoff. Ms. Hourihan is married, has six children, seven grandchildren and lives on Cape Cod.