The Glorious Guinness Girls

The author of the book ‘The Glorious Guinness Girls’ is Emily Hourican. It is a historical fiction novel and it is set in the 1920s. The book tells the real-life story of the Guinness Girls, the granddaughters of the 1st Earl of Iveagh. As seen in the story, the girls, Maureen, and Aileen, were the toast of Onagh, Dublin, and London society.

The book analyzes the girls’ glamorous lives, their love affairs, scandals, tragedies, and secrets, against the backdrop of Ireland’s War of Independence and the brittle glamour of 1920s London.