Becoming Finola by Suzanne Strempek Shea

A thirty-something young woman travels to a small village in Ireland and becomes enmeshed in the life of the community. There she finds her true love, only to have his fabled ex-girlfriend (Finola) return to sort out things with the ex whom she had abandoned very suddenly. This is a nice story, but I felt it was a little overwritten in places. Perhaps it's only because I know Suzanne is now a teacher of creative writing at Baypath College, but it seems to me that Becoming Finola has a little artistic self-consciousness that wasn't in her earlier novels.