The fatherless Moody family moved from Colorado to Medford, Massachusetts, in 1912, when Ralph was entering his teens. "I tried as hard as I could to be a city boy, but I didn't have very good luck," he says at the beginning of The Fields of Home. "Just little things that would have been all right i
Fields of Home
β Scribed by Conlon-McKenna, Marita
- Book ID
- 107499291
- Publisher
- The O'Brien Press
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 4 MB
- Series
- Children of the Famine 3
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781847176028
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β¦ Synopsis
The final book in the Children of the Famine trilogy For Eily, Michael and Peggy the memory of the famine is still strong. But Mary-Brigid, Eily's first child, has the future to look forward to. What kind of future is it? Ireland is in turmoil, with evictions, burnings, secret meetings, fights over land. Eily and her family may be thrown off their farm. Michael may lose his job in the big house. And Peggy, in America, feels trapped in her role as a maid. Will they ever have land and a home they can call their own? Eily, Michael and Peggy have once shown great courage. Now this courage is called on again ...
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