VINTAGE WEISS BROOCHES IN THE BALLROOM CAFE.

 

   When I was growing up, a grand aunt in America would twice a year send a big parcel full of delights to our home in the west of Ireland.  When we had pulled off the plain brown wrapping paper, we found a box of exotic treasure had been posted to us. There were fancy silk and satin clothes we never were going to wear and the most wonderful vintage jewellery.

Kate had an amazing life in the States and spent her time dressing up for smart occasions, or so we thought anyway. She regularly wore blue and pink satin dresses, sleeveless dresses with matching coats; taffeta and silk along with  fake fur coats and the cutest little handbags with big clasps. 

Photographs were sent back to Ireland. In her younger days, she looked like a film star.

THRILLED TO BE SHARING THE BALLROOM CAFE WITH YOU ALL.

Here are a few chapters of The Ballroom Cafe.  Just highlight the link. Right click. Hit Open link and happy reading!

https://www.scribd.com/doc/262684276/The-Ballroom-Cafe

Time To Celebrate.

Silly to get caught up on Amazon rankings, I know but it is my birthday and The Ballroom Café has slipped in to the Top 100 in the Kindle store and is a  bestseller in  Contemporary Fiction.  

I know …. but….. it is my birthday and this is the first time this has happened and there are still weeks to go before The Ballroom Café meets the world!

 

 

 

 

MANY INSPIRATIONS FOR THE BALLROOM CAFE

 
   This was a favourite spot when writing The Ballroom Cafe and no wonder then that Ella O'Callaghan so often found comfort looking out on the rhododendron grove at Roscarbury Hall from her upstairs  Ballroom Café.

   I often travelled to this lovely place- Kilmacurragh, Co Wicklow - to sit among the trees and the  towering rhododendron when I was deep in my novel, The Ballroom Café

   Beautiful with the rhododendron in bloom, these gardens near the East coast of Ireland are an oasis of peace and calm at any time of the year

LET THE COUNTDOWN BEGIN.


Yes, there are only a few short weeks until The Ballroom Cafe meets the world.

May 14 to be precise, but you can pre-order the Ebook on Amazon at a special reduced price now. 
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ballroom-Caf%C3%A9-Ann-OLoughlin-ebook/dp/B00TU0I41I/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1427960579&sr=8-1&keywords=the+Ballroom+Cafe

The mug......  a wonderful gift. I am hoping to get the tee shirt next. Happy Easter everyone!