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We are sisters, Valerie and Mary Behan and we share this website because in 2015 we wrote a memoir about our childhood in Ireland, Abbey Girls.
We started writing at an early age. While we were at boarding school in Ireland we had to write a letter home every week. The habit continued after we emigrated, Mary to the United States and Val to Canada. Mary became a professor of neuroscience at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Val a research scientist with Agriculture and Agri-food Canada.
Our parents kept all of our letters! Mary found inspiration for her first novel, A Measured Thread, in some of these, and Val is currently working on Letters to Drogheda, a memoir based on over 30 years of writing home.
Now we are working on another memoir together, Travels with Mick. Our Dad had a huge influence on our lives and we have so many great stories!
Breaking News: Mary's new novel, Torvald will be published by Cornerstone Press in October, 2027.
We started writing at an early age. While we were at boarding school in Ireland we had to write a letter home every week. The habit continued after we emigrated, Mary to the United States and Val to Canada. Mary became a professor of neuroscience at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Val a research scientist with Agriculture and Agri-food Canada.
Our parents kept all of our letters! Mary found inspiration for her first novel, A Measured Thread, in some of these, and Val is currently working on Letters to Drogheda, a memoir based on over 30 years of writing home.
Now we are working on another memoir together, Travels with Mick. Our Dad had a huge influence on our lives and we have so many great stories!
Breaking News: Mary's new novel, Torvald will be published by Cornerstone Press in October, 2027.
