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Written by Nuala O'Faolain - audio book performed by Dearbhla Molloy - Abridged Fiction - 6 COMPACT DISCS - 6.5 hours

Publisher, Simon & Schuster Audioworks (February 2001)

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2002 Audie Award Winner for 'Best Solo Narration – Female' Audiobook, presented by the Audio Publishers Association for excellence in audio publishing.

Kathleen de Burca is a travel writer based in London. The office is the nearest thing she has to a home. When a quick series of blows strips away the props of her life, she is faced with the frightening imperative of change.

In her crisis she decides to investigate a true story about a relationship so passionate that it burned its way across the barriers of class and culture -- a scandalous affair between the wife of an English landlord and an Irish servant during the devastation of Ireland's potato famine.

After an absence of thirty years, Kathleen returns to Ireland to research the story and begins a journey that leads her not only into the historical past, but into a reconsideration of the family she fled years ago. While back in Ireland, she meets a lover of her own who presents her with a choice that promises to alter the course of her life. As she moves toward her decision, she calls on the strengths of her identity as a woman, an Irish woman, and a woman who is no longer young. Meanwhile, she brings the story of the long-ago lovers to a denouement as tender as it is tragic.

My Dream of You explores the extremes of passion, the depths of loneliness, and the resilience of the human heart.

About the Author: Nuala O'Faolain is a columnist for The Irish Times. She lives in Dublin and the West of Ireland.

About the Performer: Dearbhla Molloy's films include Frankie Starlight, This is the Sea (both w/Gabriel Byrne) and Run of the Country (w/Albert Finney). Her numerous television appearances on British and American television include PBS's Fragile Heart with Nigel Hawthorne. On the New York stage, she starred in Broadway's Dancing at Lughnasa (Tony & Drama Desk noms.) and Juno & the Paycock. Her extensive work at Ireland's Abbey & Gate theaters, Britain's Royal Shakespeare Company, West End, and National Theatre includes Plough and the Stars (w/Judi Dench), As You Like It (w/Kenneth Branagh), and several productions directed by Sam Mendes, Stephen Rea, Derek Jacobi, and Trevor Nunn.