Susan Colleen Browne, Writer, Gardener & Homesteader

Rose smooths her housedress then takes a bowl of eggs out of the larder. The hens are getting old, and a fortnight ago, they stopped laying entirely. Still, she hasn’t the heart to turn them into stew. She goes out the back door to the coop, to plant a half-dozen shop eggs in the nesting boxes. She can’t get enough of the way wee Kerry lights up every time she finds an egg. Rose has never let on how lonely she’s been since Seamus was taken, but she lives for Anne and Kerry’s

Rose Among the Stars is a companion storyline from my novels The Hopeful Romantic and newly-released The Galway Girls. I hope you enjoy it! “In Ireland, this world and the world we go to after death are not far apart.” W.B. Yeats A deep blue mist surrounds Rose. The mist rises and falls, still, she feels calm and peaceful here, like floating in warm water. Rose feels like she’s been in this place for a very long time, perhaps forever. Yet now the mist begins to swirl round