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The Killing Snows

The Defining Novel of the Great Irish Famine

Charles Egan author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:SilverWood Books Ltd

Published:19th Oct '12

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This book is fiction. The story that inspired it was not. In 1990, a box of very old documents was found on a small farm in the west of Ireland. They had been stored for well over a hundred years and told an incredible story of suffering, of love and of courage. In 1846, a young couple met during the worst days of the Great Irish Famine. The Killing Snows is a way to imagine what led to their meeting and what followed from it.

'Powerful and compelling' Sarah Hackett - The Irish Post 'Famine novel likened to Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath.' Connaught Telegraph 'A vital reminder of the fragility of life, love and survival.' The Irish Post

ISBN: 9781781320570

Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 23mm

Weight: 611g

418 pages

3rd Revised edition