Very powerful and moving book about the Irish potato famine during 1845-49, which resulted in over a million deaths. This forced a mass emigration to America for people who loved their land with all their hearts but had to leave to survive.I knew about this, of course, from school, and from my gr...
Good historical fiction should be a history lesson that doesn't feel like a history lesson, illustrating history through personal stories that engage us and allow us to see the history unfold through the eyes of characters we feel a connection with. That is exactly what this novel does as it tak...
Paul O’Toole says as he hands a wet bedsheet from the laundry basket up to me. I drape the heavy linen over the line then clothespin it down against the first warm breeze of the season. “I hate it, too,” I say. “‘A great day for drying,’ me mam back...