can anyone help with book title / author?

Having read a few threads, and seen how brilliant you guys are, thought I would try my luck, hoping someone can help…

I read a novel, but cant remember the author or title…

Brief synopsis is that Ireland was invaded (i think by cubans), and the plan to free the country involves a young girl called maeve, who is crowned as queen, and goes round the celtic regiments of britain and recruits troops to fight and reclaim ireland…

It includes a scotish general called Stewart (surname), And i think that Croke Park was used as an internment camp…

I REALLY want to read it again, but google isnt helping :frowning:

Could it be Dark Rose, by Mike Lunnon Wood?

A description from a thread mocking the book as one of the worst books about Ireland(sorry, their description, not mine!):

I’ve bolded the part that might refer to this Maeve (not the historic one, obviously). Only reason I think this might be the same book is that one of the reviews in that Amazon link refers to “Long live Queen Maeve!” Though I don’t know if that’s a reference to the historic one or the character in the book. Anyway, it’s the best I could find. (The invaders aren’t Cubans though, just um Libyans, living in Chile, pretending to be Spanish students. Of course. :))

That’s sounds so awful that I really have to read it…

choie…

YOU, are a genius… :slight_smile:

That is exactly the book i am after… it is Dark Rose by Mike Lunnon-wood.

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! :slight_smile: :slight_smile: :slight_smile:

Yay! I love this kind of detective work. And you’re very welcome. Fortunately it looks easy to get an expensive copy – enjoy!

not that expensive, I can get it from amazon for 0.01 + 2.80 postage.

Once again, you rock :slight_smile:

Ha, I think I’ll get it too. Sounds like the biggest load of cobblers.