‘Matchmaking’ has always been a great Irish tradition from the ‘bachelor festivals’ in Lisdoonvara to the late great John B. Keane’s observations on ‘Matchmaking’.
But matchmaking is no longer just the preserve of love hungry farmers and parish spinsters but the love hungry twenty and thirty year olds of the cities – Dublin, Cork, Galway – looking for the perfect partner to settle down with!
Watching my own three daughters and their friends, the girls of today, who have it all, careers, money, travel and property and yet so often let romance pass them, the idea for ‘The Matchmaker’ came!
As girls wait for a ‘Mr Darcy’ to come along and sweep them off their feet, they often forget the lovely men around them! What is a good mother supposed to do?
Matchmake!!!
This is a book about love and romance definitely but is also about mothers and daughters, loneliness and friendships and the search to find the person that makes us happy.