
Read more soon brings starving men, women and children crowding into the town and the workhouse, desperate for assistance. Dr Dan Donovan is Medical Officer to the Skibbereen Union. Refusing to give in to despair, she must use every ounce of courage and strength to protect her family as they fight to survive. Seamstress Mary Sullivan's dreams of a better future are shattered as she looks out over their ruined crop. The No.1 bestselling novel of the Great Irish Famine from one of Ireland's most beloved writers Ireland's hopes for freedom are dashed with the arrival of a deadly potato blight that strikes terror in the heart of its people.


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