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This book's only weakness is that it's so short that it left me wanting more to the story.
This tale of life in Ireland a the start of the great Potato Famine was heartbreaking. I had read historical accounts, but this made it so personal that the story was more real.
Nory's family was barely scraping by in a hard life of fishing and farming, when things took a terrible turn for the worse. Father was late getting back from a long trip, the potatoes were turning black in the fields, and the landow ...more
This tale of life in Ireland a the start of the great Potato Famine was heartbreaking. I had read historical accounts, but this made it so personal that the story was more real.
Nory's family was barely scraping by in a hard life of fishing and farming, when things took a terrible turn for the worse. Father was late getting back from a long trip, the potatoes were turning black in the fields, and the landow ...more
