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The Learys Set the Tea

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In this Cork family, the hardest part of a funeral is deciding who gets to sit down.

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The Learys Set the Tea, a women's fiction family saga concept package. The graphic shows 5 novel covers and the free lead magnet, The Cup Before the Visitors.

The concept

Fourteen-year-old Eileen can pour for thirty people without spilling a drop. When her father dies, she discovers what that accomplishment costs. A century of Leary women must learn to grieve in a house where somebody always has to answer the door.

1932. Fourteen-year-old Eileen knows exactly how her father took his tea. On the afternoon of his burial, everybody asks her for theirs. The free companion novella is The Cup Before the Visitors.

The worldA terraced Cork house has a blue range, one chipped red cup and a table that seats six if the youngest sits across the corner. Brigid starts a neighbourhood custom of taking the kettle when someone dies. Her daughter Eileen, granddaughter Maura, great-granddaughter Deirdre and Deirdre’s daughter Orla each inherit unfinished business as well as a place at the table.

Series tropesGrief to Hope • Underdog • Opposites Life Goals

Intended readershipFor readers who notice who washes the cups after everybody praises the hostess. Grief, humour at a crowded table and difficult reconciliations carry five complete generational stories.

Tone & contentFamily-centred and intimate. Each generation makes one lasting change to the family custom.

The people behind the promise

Free novellaBrigid Leary and her widowed neighbour Nell

Book 1Eileen Leary and her mother Brigid

Book 2Maura Leary and her mother Eileen

Book 3Deirdre Leary and Nell’s granddaughter Pauline

Book 4Orla Leary and her mother Deirdre

Book 5Orla’s daughter Aoife and her grandmother Deirdre

Series arc

From Brigid’s first funeral in 1919 to Aoife’s morning with her grandmother in 2026, hospitality moves through the family as skill, obligation and finally a choice. The old custom survives because the youngest woman changes who is entitled to receive it.

The five books

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Free novella

The Cup Before the Visitors

Cork, 1919. Nell asks Brigid for ten quiet minutes with her dead husband. The first visitor is already on the step.

Story outline

Story arc and endingBrigid gets everyone serving tea next door, then hears Nell singing to her husband through the wall. When a relative barges in to stop her, Brigid goes back in and sings the second verse. Nell leaves Brigid a chipped red cup for the next woman who needs ten minutes.

Emotional payoffBrigid gives up being thought tactful to do the kind thing her friend actually asked of her.

Story focusChildhood Friends

Length30,000 words planned

Book 1 of five

The Daughter Who Boiled the Kettle

1932. Fourteen-year-old Eileen knows exactly how her father took his tea. On the afternoon of his burial, everybody asks her for theirs.

Story outline

Story arc and endingEileen puts a neighbour in charge and takes the red cup to her mother. Brigid is furious about the guests until Eileen admits she never got to say goodbye at the burial. They take the first bus out together the next morning, carry a flask to his grave and make a rule that a child of the house gets to sit before a caller does.

Emotional payoffBeing capable ceases to cost Eileen the right to need her mother.

Story focusSingle Parent

Length55,000 words planned

Book 2 of five

The Empty Place Beside Eileen

1963. The empty chair beside Eileen belongs to the sister who stopped coming home. Maura finds two tickets for the journey her mother never mentioned.

Story outline

Story arc and endingMaura learns Eileen and her estranged sister Kathleen have spent one Sunday a year together since a quarrel over Brigid’s care. At Brigid’s funeral Maura seats Kathleen openly. That kindness lands badly until she gives both sisters time away from the staring room and lets them decide to walk back in together. Kathleen becomes a regular visitor while declining a move back under Eileen’s roof.

Emotional payoffMaura learns that opening a door gives nobody the right to push another woman through it.

Story focusHidden Relationship

Length55,000 words planned

Book 3 of five

Tea for the Woman Nobody Knew

1989. A woman with an overnight case arrives from Liverpool for Kathleen’s funeral and knows the house better than Deirdre does.

Story outline

Story arc and endingPauline spent school holidays here while her mother was unwell. Kathleen kept her childhood refuge private. Deirdre wants proof of kinship before offering the spare bed, then finds a drawing of a child’s hiding place behind the range. She lets Pauline tell her own version at breakfast. The women keep the drawing private and arrange a visit at which their children can meet.

Emotional payoffDeirdre gives up guarding a pedigree and gains a living connection of her own.

Story focusFish Out of Water

Length55,000 words planned

Book 4 of five

The Spoon Across the Saucer

2016. Freshly divorced, Orla volunteers for every funeral tea on her mother’s list. A spoon laid across her saucer makes her stop.

Story outline

Story arc and endingDeirdre has revived Brigid’s old sign for a woman who needs somebody to take her place. Orla thinks the sign is meant for her mother and cancels Deirdre’s commitments. Their row reveals Deirdre put it on Orla’s cup. Orla relinquishes the next rota herself and asks her mother to come see the small flat she has been ashamed to show her.

Emotional payoffOrla distinguishes being wanted from being permanently available.

Story focusRebuilding Life After Divorce

Length55,000 words planned

Book 5 of five

Set One More Place for Morning

2026. At nineteen, Aoife comes back for Maura’s funeral to find the kettle cold and Deirdre sitting beside it.

Story outline

Story arc and endingAoife declined the last breakfast Maura invited her to. Deirdre spent the night with her dying mother and cannot face receiving callers. As relatives decide which daughter should do it, Aoife asks each household to bring its own breakfast and one recollection Maura would have corrected. Deirdre takes her place among the laughing guests. In the quiet afterwards, Aoife serves her grandmother from the chipped cup and leaves the key on the common hook.

Emotional payoffAoife finds her place by giving the oldest woman in the room permission to receive what she has spent a lifetime giving.

Story focusSecond Chance

Length55,000 words planned

From the free novella into Book 1

Read the novella first for Brigid’s original promise. Each novel can introduce a new reader through the woman who must answer the next knock.

In the concept package

Includes the author pitch, editable Authorythm seeds and individual AI-generated front-cover concepts. The planned fiction totals 305,000 words.

Included free

Buy the 5-book concept pack and receive the companion lead magnet concept free. Each novel is planned at 55,000 words. The lead magnet, The Cup Before the Visitors, is planned at 30,000 words.

Included in the pack

Author pitch PDF with the series premise, characters, book blurbs and complete story arcs. One editable Authorythm seed document. 6 coordinated front-cover concepts.