O'Malley Family Saga · Book 2

A Midwinter's Tale

by Andrew M. Greeley

Published
1 January 1998
Pages
383
ISBN-13
9780312865719
Type
novel

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Cover of A Midwinter's Tale

About this book

A Midwinter's Tale continues the O'Malley Family Saga in 1998, following Summer at the Lake as Greeley moves Chucky and Rosemarie's story forward toward the Second World War era. It sits between Summer at the Lake and Younger Than Springtime in the family's chronological arc across the twentieth century.

Its place in O'Malley Family Saga

A Midwinter's Tale is book 2 in the O'Malley Family Saga series. It follows Summer at the Lake. It is followed by Younger Than Springtime. See the full O'Malley Family Saga reading order.

A seven-novel chronicle of the O'Malley family -- Charles "Chucky" O'Malley and his wife Rosemarie chief among them -- across the twentieth century, from Chucky and Rosemarie's youth and courtship through the Second World War, into ambassadorial and family life, and finally old age in Golden Years (2004). Greeley uses the family's decades-spanning story to trace mid-century American Catholic life, Chicago's Irish community, and a marriage that stays passionate and complicated across fifty years, rather than…

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