Title: The red coat
Description: Irish domestic worker Norah King's decision to ask her wealthy employer, Caroline Parker, for an elegant red coat the Beacon Hill matriarch has marked for donation ignites a series of events that neither woman could have fathomed. The unlikely exchange will impact their respective daughters and families for generations to come, from the coat's original owner, marriage-minded collegian Cordelia Parker, to the determined and spirited King sisters of South Boston, Rosemary, Kay, and Rita.
Subjects: Irish Americans, Fiction, Boston (mass.), fiction, Fiction, family life, Fiction, historical, Sisters, fiction, Irish americans, fiction, Young women, fiction
Places: Beacon Hill (Boston, Mass.)