by Sheelagh Kelly...

 

One fateful morning in August 1846, Patrick Feeney surveyed his ruined potato crop- and for the first time knew despair.

With a delicate wife and their unborn child, he had no choice but to leave that wild and beautiful corner of ireland and set out for England in search of work. But from the moment Patrick and Mary set foot in Liverpool, they are beset by new trials. After tramping the long weary miles to York, they are forced to settle in the nightmarish slums of Walmgate where disease and death are rife. Yet the very povert and hoplessness of their surroundings bind their small community togetherin a stubborn determination to survive thru tragedy and win for themselves a better life.

 

A good read, 7/10