The Element of Fire
By Brendan Graham.
Description
From the author of the acclaimed The Whitest Flower comes the story of an unforgettable heroine, Ellen Rua O'Malley. Widowed by Ireland's Great Famine, she has fled her native land for Boston taking with her her two surviving children, Patrick and Mary, and the 'silent girl' rescued from the hordes of the dispossessed. Boston in the 1850s is the hub of the universe: gateway to America's temples of commerce and learning; liberal, sophisticated -- the very best place in all of the New World for a woman to be. There, awaiting Ellen, are the stability of a new life and ...
ISBN(s)
0006513964, 9780006513964
