The Inheritance Dilemma

If you inherited 10 million US dollars would you be afraid it might ruin your family?Someone did!The novel is in two parts, The Past and The Present. Part 1 starts with a nostalgic and interesting insight into two very different families. We follow generations of the Collins family as they work in the well-known Guinness Brewery as skillful coopers. We read about life in the infamous Dublin tenements. We witness the widespread destruction of Dublin during the 1916 Easter Rising, the Irish Civil War,and the notorious Black and Tan era.The second family who are part of New York's wealthy society are descended from Mary O'Brien who left County Kerry for America on one of the dreaded famine ships. She is abandoned and left destitute by her husband. A kind, wealthy, gentleman helps to educate Mary. She makes a name for herself fighting for women's rights. She marries a successful and wealthy US Senator who distinguishes himself fighting on the Union side in the American Civil War.These two remarkable families eventually connect in extraordinary circumstances when American millionaire recluse, Jack Colbert, great grandson of Mary O'Brien bequeaths 10 million dollars to his dead daughter's heir.In Part 2, The Present, we discover who gets the 10 million dollar inheritance which is a dilemma for the recipient. We get an insight into the exciting world of advertising made popular recently by the Mad Men TV series. Jenny Boland and her husband, Andrew, live in Dublin. After surviving catastrophic injuries in a motor accident, Andrew builds his own advertising agency business. Novel ends with an interesting twist to the story.