A Maid on Fifth Avenue

Bloomsbury presents A Maid on Fifth Avenue by Sinéad Crowley, read by Avena Mansergh-Wallace.
How far must you run to truly escape your past?
Annie thinks she has found the answer when she leaves her home on the west coast of Ireland and boards a ship for New York. Irish maids are in demand in the 1920s, and she finds work with the wealthy Cavendish family in their opulent Fifth Avenue mansion.
Annie soon makes a friend, an Italian waitress named Elena. As their friendship deepens into something more passionate and dangerous for them both, however, Annie's past rises up to haunt her. Once again she will be forced to flee.
A century later, in post-pandemic Ireland, Emer is also running, and finds a haven in her family's home in West Kerry. But here, too, the past is refusing to die, and as Annie and Emer's lives intertwine, long buried secrets are about to be revealed.
A Maid on Fifth Avenue is a heart-stopping novel new dual timeline novel, from the bestselling author of The Belladonna Maze.

Sinéad Crowley is a writer and broadcaster, whose three DS Claire Boyle crime novels were all nominated for the 'Best Crime' category at the Irish Book Awards, with the first two becoming Irish Times bestsellers. She is currently Arts and Media Correspondent with RTE News, the Irish national broadcaster. The Belladonna Maze moves away from crime, and is published by Head of Zeus in 2022.