BOOK CLUB

The Finding Our Voices book club meets, mostly online, about five times a year WITH THE AUTHOR to discuss books involving domestic abuse.

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IRISH AUTHOR SERIES!

Our next four discussions are with Irish authors discussing their books involving domestic abuse. This series came about through Gabriel Byrne regularly sending links to our Founder+CEO Patrisha McLean of reviews of books in the Irish Times and when she let him know she loved the book, connecting her with the author!

We are thrilled to welcome as a partner in this series, Solas Nua, the Washington DC-based organization devoted to bringing to US audiences the best in Irish arts.

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Scroll down to see the growing list of Maine public libraries and bookstores live-streaming our author talks and offering discounts on our books.

Tuesday November 18, 2025
2 pm - 3:15 pm

ONLINE

The Woman Who Walked Into Doors
by Roddy Doyle

Roddy Doyle will be joining us from Ireland for a discussion over Zoom of his brilliant trilogy on Paula Spencer, starting with The Women Who Walked Into Doors, then to Paula Spencer, and right up to this year's The Women Behind the Door. His first book was earth shattering to me, when I read it --twice in a row-- without consciously understanding that I was also living this kind of life, albeit in a higher socio-economic level than Paula. The latest book is a devastating and spot-on examination of domestic abuse's impact to the mother and daughter relationship.

“Paula Spencer is the character I’m most proud of. I met a group of women who’d been in violent relationships, years ago - when The Women first came out. They’d all read the book, and one of them said: ‘How did you get inside my fuckin’ head?’ It’s the best review I ever got.”

—Roddy Doyle in a 2019 letter to Patrisha McLean, CEO and Founder of Finding Our Voices

Tuesday January 20, 2026
1 p.m. to 2:15 p.m.

ONLINE

Deadly Silence: A Sister's Battle to Uncover the Truth Behind the Murder of Clodagh and her Sister by Alan Hawe
By Jacqueline Connolly

Jacqueline will be joining us from Ireland over Zoom to discuss her heart-breaking and infuriating account of the domestic violence murder-suicide that rocked her personal world and also Ireland.

This book is not yet available in the US but can be ordered through these Irish booksellers, and also as an audiobook:

https://www.kennys.ie/shop/Deadly-Silence-Jacqueline-Connolly-9781399706650

https://www.easons.com/deadly-silence-jacqueline-connolly-9781399706650

Tuesday, March 3, 2026
4 p.m. to 5:15 p.m.

ONLINE

Nesting: A Novel
by Roisín O'Donnell

Longlisted for the Women's Prize - An Instant Bestseller in Ireland and the UK

Roisin will be joining us from Ireland over Zoom to discuss her “beautiful, urgent, and ultimately uplifting novel by a rising Irish literary star comes a heart-pounding, life-affirming story about one woman trying to leave her marriage and start over.”

Tuesday, March 24, 2026
1 pm to 2:15 p.m.

Ring of Salt: A Memoir of Finding Home and Hope on the Wild Coast of Ireland
by Betsy Cornwell

Betsy will be joining us over Zoom to discuss her memoir described as Maid meets Under the Tuscan Sun, about a writer and mother who flees an abusive marriage and must learn to reclaim the story of her life through a search for home on Ireland’s wild, western coast.

Thank you to our partnering businesses!

Libraries hosting our live-streaming author talks include those in Fort Kent, Jackson, Ellsworth, Blue Hill, Patten Free Library in Bath, Scarborough, and Cape Elizabeth.

Bookstores giving discounts on our books include Bogan Books in Fort Kent, Blue Hill Books, Devaney, Doak and Garrett Booksellers in Farmington, Bookstacks in Bucksport, Barnswallow Books in Rockport, Print: A Bookstore in Portland