Tipperary author to launch sixth installment of historical fiction series

Thurles author Susie Murphy has published A Class Inherited, the sixth book in her historical fiction series A Matter of Class.

Released on November 20 2023, A Class Inherited is a continuation of the series, which includes A Class Apart, A Class Entwined, A Class Forsaken, A Class Coveted and A Class Reunited.

Set in Ireland, England and America in the 19th century, the series spans almost two decades and two family generations.

Tenant unrest and Catholic-Protestant tensions form the background to a love story across the class divide between Bridget and Cormac, a landowner’s daughter and a stablehand’s son.

Susie’s A Matter of Class series has achieved acclaim from the Historical Novel Society, which selected her third book, A Class Forsaken, as an Editors’ Choice in spring 2021. Her first book, A Class Apart, was shortlisted in the final five in the fiction category of the Carousel Aware Prize for Independently Published Authors in November 2023.

Described by readers as ‘the Irish Downton Abbey’, the series is available in ebook and paperback on Amazon and in audio format on Audible. Paperbacks are also available in Bookworm Bookshop in Thurles and online from Thebookshop.ie. Visit www.susiemurphywrites. com for more information.

Known locally as Susan Bourke, Susie attended the Ursuline Secondary School in Thurles from 1999 to 2005 and taught piano at St Angela’s Academy of Music from 2009 to 2018.

There will be a book launch for A Class Inherited taking place in Bookworm at 6:30pm on Friday, November 24. All are welcome!

Please RSVP to susie@susiemurphywrites. com.