is a real pleasure to welcome a new novelist who could create a griffin story around themes a real substance and wide appeal Valerie Miner is such a novelist and shows in blood sister the skill one from years is successful short story writing journalism and criticism. blood sisters has at its heart to our sisters Gerry and Holly who grew up Steve didn't ideas of the 1916 or uprising. their lives separated when probably married and went to California eventually becoming mother to a son and daughter. Gerry stayed in iron later at marrying to a charmer with whom she had one daughter. as a novel opens there's those two daughters are meeting for the first time in London Holly's daughter Liz has turned her energy to the woman's liberation movement. Gerry's daughter Beth fights for the Irish freedom as an activist and the provisional wing of the IRA. the two young women are soon deeply engaged in attempting to understand each other's ideals to cross the blurred lines between private and political life. but they are divided by their separate histories by his relationship with her lover Gwen and best love for Larry his brother most of all they are divided by the political priorities. Liz to women best to iron. blood sisters beautifully combined several themes within the 10th format of a thriller the relationship between women of different generations the choice of allegiance between male and female identified politics the struggle of the Irish people to discover the create their own history.