Blessed Are The Cheesemakers

Joseph Corrigan and Joseph Feehan, better known as Corrie and Fee, make the finest cheese in the entire civilized world. But Corrie pines for his long-lost granddaughter, Abbey, who is just leaving the remote South Seas island where she has discovered her husband has been getting biblical with the natives. Meanwhile, a continent away, Kit Stephens is struggling with the loss of his wife and his career. What this lonely, hung over and burned-out New Yorker needs is a miracle -- fast. And where better to find one than in a distant corner of Ireland, on a dairy farm run by the unlikeliest pair ever to preside over a vat of unpasteurized curd? As Abbey and Kit converge on Coolarney House in County Cork, they discover a marvelous kingdom where something wonderful is always fermenting and where pregnant, vegetarian dairymaids milk cows to The Sound of Music. Then a tantalizing mystery surfaces from the aromatic depths of the factory. Soon Abbey and Kit will find out whether they have what it takes to become master cheesemakers, and possibly something more. Blessed are the Cheesemakers is exhilarating, poignant, earthy, and wise -- and heralds the arrival of a lively and irrepressible new voice in contemporary fiction. Sarah-Kate Lynch lives with her husband in a lakeside town in New Zealand's South Island. She loves cheese. Reader Heather O'Neill is originally from Ireland and now lives in New York where she has performed in off-Broadway plays with The Irish Repertory Theatre.