Fiction book about Irish famine

Niamhc3 · 07-12-2014 4:08pm #1

Read a fiction book about Irish famine & can't remember the name of it.almost sure there's a sequel I'd love to read.lead characters name was Katie she married & had number children as the famine hit...she had twins who died & at the end of the book she & her family were on the road to emigrating to America...anyone?

Dial Hard · 08-12-2014 10:59am

Was it Under the Hawthorne Tree by Marita Conlon McKenna?

Niamhc3 · 08-12-2014 4:00pm

no its not that

Kovu · 08-12-2014 4:10pm

Katie’s Wish? By Barbara Shook-Hazen.

Niamhc3 · 08-12-2014 4:16pm

No not that either I think sorrow is in the title...

Kovu · 08-12-2014 7:18pm

Was it for young adults or adults? There are a few I can think of but most are teenager books.

Niamhc3 · 08-12-2014 8:18pm

adults female audience I expect story starts with female lead dumping one suitor for another maryin him and having loads of babies a side story is about the rich protestant family with the big house as far as I recall her dad was a gatekeeper...the famine is introduced fairly early so as to show te suffering...

echo beach · 08-12-2014 10:24pm

Is it one of the Brendan Graham trilogy? The Whitest Flower, The Element of Fire, and The Brightest Day The Darkest Night tell the story of Ellen Rua O'Malley but I don't remember a Katie.

Kovu · 08-12-2014 10:29pm

Oh! Echo Beach, you've reminded me of the ''O'Breen Women Trilogy'': Wild Kentucky Rose, Letters from Katie, The End of the Tracks.

Niamhc3 · 10-12-2014 6:38pm

No sorry it's none of those..her eldest child was called Mary Kate or Mary ann there was a Brigid too n I think a Kay...the town she lived in was devasted by the famine almost everyone died or moved

worker bee · 10-05-2022 11:01am

Dreams of Other Days by Elaine Crowley

When Katy O'Donnell marries handsome, swaggering,hard-drinking Jamsie O'Hara she is as fresh and filled with dreams as her mistress, Catherine Kilgoran, marrying in silk and lace up at the big house.

The story of two families whose fortunes are inextricably linked, and of a small, close-knit community bound together by tradition and by tragedy, it is also a tender and truthful portrayal of a marriage and of a woman whose indomitable spirit remains unbowed.

Fiction book about Irish famine

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