As dramatic as a good novel, this is the first intimate biography of Kitty O'Shea, the woman whose scandalous love affair with the Irish nationalist leader Charles Stewart Parnell altered the course of Irish history. Kethoe introduces us to a woman who is unrecognisable from the home-wrecker and historical catastrophe she is commonly seen as, and instead presents a portrait of a gifted woman bound by impossible financial and social restrictions. From the author of "Fortune's Daughters".