Also, a love triangle between Katie, who has no experience, the quiet and steady Joseph and the flirtatious yet hard-working Tavish O’Connor developed. Many of the events are based on stories she found that happened to immigrants in that era in Ireland and in the West.Īnd at the end of “Longing for Home,” Katie had a choice to make - to stay in Hope Springs and help her new friends there or go home to Ireland to be with her ailing parents. It’s set here in America, which gives it a different tone.” “It still has that very European flair as the characters are Irish. “I’ve actually wanted to write this story for a really long time,” Eden said.
during that time period, and she wanted to write a book from an immigrant’s perspective, which would require a change of setting. She is a source of hope for the Irish.Įden, who has Irish ancestry, had wondered what it was like for the Irish immigrants who came to the U.S. She has no desire to be drawn into the feud, but she is the housekeeper for Joseph Archer, a non-Irish widower and the main landowner in the valley, and his two children, and her very presence in town fuels the ire of the non-Irish residents. Katie has spent most of her 26 years earning money to go back to Ireland to restore the land they lost in the Great Famine and to buy a marker for her young sister’s grave. The story shares Katie Macauley’s journey as she moves to a town in Wyoming Territory in 1870 that is sharply divided and prejudiced against the Irish immigrants. Both books are longer than 380 pages each. “But I created such a complex story that it just couldn’t be told in one book,” Eden said in an interview with the Deseret News. The story was initially going to be one book.
Eden had a few surprises as she wrote the historical novel “ Longing for Home,” which was released last fall, and the story's conclusion in “Hope Springs” (Shadow Mountain, $15.99), which is scheduled to be released this week.
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