The Woman on the Bridge: You saw The Girl on the Train. You watched The Woman in the Window. Now meet The Woman on the Bridge

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The protagonist of this story was loosely based upon the life of the author's grandmother. A strong woman who was swept up in events not of her choosing, yet keeping her own beliefs and strong personality throughout. Winnie O'Leary lives with her family in Dublin. Starting in 1920, we follow her throughout her life, through Bloody Sunday and the Irish War of Independence, then the Irish Civil War, when her husband was jailed as a political prisoner for his partisan leanings. When Kaufman finally published his piece about Kahane, he implied, but stopped short of truly specifying, the real nature of the rabbi’s relationship with D’Argenio. As Kahane’s rhetoric worsened, as he moved his base of operations from America to Israel, as his followers said and published bigoted screeds of their own, Kaufman wondered if he had done the right thing in downplaying the affair and about Kahane’s culpability in D’Argenio’s suicide: “Was that my job, to bring the rabbi down?” he wrote in 1994. “I do not know. Over the years I have asked a number of rabbis about it. Some said that setting out to destroy a reputation by revealing secrets of a private life is tantamount to murder. But I am more impressed by those who told me that showing mercy to the cruel is wrong and sinful.” I was looking forward to starting this one, sounded just like my type of story and it didn’t disappoint. Charlotte is driving angrily and sees a woman in a drenched wedding gown on a bridge. Her decision to stop and help her will be her fate. Maggie *seems* like a frightened victim.

Maggie, the woman she rescued, was jilted at the altar when an obsessed colleague turns up to ruin the wedding. As the details Maggie gives Charlotte are revealed, I found myself wanting to shake her for her stupidity. I’m all for doing the right thing and trying to help someone in need, but her actions really made no sense. Munch was one of a number of exceptional portrait artists in Europe at around this time. In Austria you will find Gustav Klimt, an artist whose style was related, but also different in some ways. He also liked to use the beauty of the female body with his paintings, as shown with the likes of The Kiss, Judith with the Head of Holoferne and also Emilie Floege. Both Klimt and Munch would use expressive techniques, but the latter tended to use much less detail and concentrate more on creating an atmosphere within his work. Both are now considered amongst the most famous artists in history, and left behind two huge collections of work across a variety of different artistic disciplines. Munch himself found certain models that he would use again and again but in the case of the painting before us here, The Women on the Bridge, he would only have worried about the lady standing closest, as the others have their heads turned away.

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By the time that year of mourning ended, Michael King was no more. Now that he had jettisoned the alias and his former life as a failed covert operative to double down on his overt life as an Orthodox rabbi and a family man, Meir Kahane could fully embody his most trenchant beliefs. His urgent nationalist fervor for Israel strengthened after the Six-Day War in 1967, as did his sense that he, above all men, had some greater service to impart. The driver sped to the foot of the bridge and alerted the two patrolmen on duty. When they drove out across the bridge, they spotted Laura running along the pedestrian path. Estelle was not with her. But is Maggie the best friend Charlotte has always dreamed about, or the nightmare she never saw coming... Whilst I have to admit it was a slow start for me, not the story or the plot as such, just for me getting into it. But once I did, I was hooked and devoured it!

Later, Agnes, reacting to Winnie’s mother’s description of Markievicz as “an insurgent”, wonders where exactly the family’s sympathies lie. She doesn’t want the marriage between her son and Winnie to go ahead. Winnie tells her boss, Alice Kelley, of Agnes’s disapproval of her. But Alice says that if Winnie loves Joseph, she has to fight for him. The book is incredibly well researched and the abject poverty, shortage of essentials and the never ending disruption to locals is well documented. The added letters within the book were a nice added touch and allowed the reader to see correspondence between the sisters and between Joseph & Winnie.I turned down lots of them before my mother accepted one for me (I was on holiday at the time). It was in the Central Bank of Ireland and that’s how my career in financial services began. And even though the visibility is poor, Charlotte can't help but see the flash of white on the bridge. She believes that her eyes are deceiving her. There's a young woman in a bridal gown clinging to the steel girders. She looks like she's about to jump. Within seconds, Charlotte pulls over and begins to climb with no regard for her own safety. She extends her hand and the frantic woman grabs it just in time. It's 1920s Ireland. The country is being torn apart by factions who want to see Ireland as independent country.

The roommates ventured out, heading crosstown. Somehow, the two women ended up all the way east at the pedestrian entrance to the Queensboro Bridge. Estelle kept threatening to throw herself off it. As she is driving despite the poor visibility she still spots a woman standing on a bridge she is approaching, the woman is clinging on to the steel girders wearing a wedding dress, drenched from the pouring rain, and barely hanging on. Charlotte abruptly stops her car and jumps out. Without any thoughts about her own safety she climbs onto the bridge extending her hand to coax the woman down. The woman grabs her hand just in time. This is the beginning of a new friendship with Maggie, who tells Charlotte of the events of that day, she was going to marry a man called Mike, but halfway through the ceremony a man known as David, who she claimed had been stalking her, had stopped the ceremony, he claimed that Maggie loved him and he had proof. The groom along with her mother had all abandoned Maggie, which is why she ended up on the bridge. Utterly captivating . . . a story of love, war and how women will fight for the people they love’ Cathy Kelly

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Now these two women are brought together in tragic circumstances they will make a decision that will alter their lives forever! The funeral was in Bridgeport. Gloria’s family attended, but years later Gloria would prove to be a tragedy best forgotten. When Agnes, her eldest sister, died in June 2019, the obituary did not list Gloria among the predeceased siblings, children, and grandchildren. Janet’s obituary, published upon her death in 2008, also omitted mention of her youngest sibling. It’s a very cleverly crafted story, quite complex in its twists. It’s a tale of duplicity and cunning - people are not who they seem but who you can you trust? I ended up being suspicious of everyone, doubting their motives and wondering just how trust worthy they were. I definitely didn’t see the end coming.