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Fields of Home

30 May 2022 by Shirin

Fields of Home by Marita Conlon-McKenna is the third and final volume of the Children of the Famine trilogy. (I have reviewed the first two books, Under the Hawthorn Tree and Wildflower Girl.) It has been twelve years since the Famine struck Ireland and the O’Driscoll siblings are now young adults and are still trying to build better lives. Eily and her husband …

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Wildflower Girl

30 May 2022 by Shirin

Wildflower Girl by Marita Conlon-McKenna is the sequel to Under the Hawthorne Tree. (You can read my review here.) This book sees Eily, Michael and Peggy alive and well six years later in Castletaggart. Aunt Lena is now dead and the girls and Aunt Nano try to eke out a living at the bake shop. …

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The Watsons Go to Birmingham – 1963

30 May 2022 by Shirin

My girls and I had a rip-roaring time with “The Watsons Go To Birmingham – 1963” by multi-award winning author, Christopher Paul Curtis. The story is about the “Weird Watsons”, a middle-class black family’s life in Flint, Michigan and their journey to the Deep South. Kenny, the narrator of the story, is an intelligent 10-year-old …

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Under the Hawthorn Tree

30 May 2022 by Shirin

I first discovered this gem of a book by Marita Conlon-McKenna quite by accident and almost gave it a miss – it was such a ragged copy! I got it for a mere 50 rupees. This award-winning novel deals with the the Great Irish Famine that ravaged Ireland in the 1840s. The story centres around …

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