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Flight of the Wren

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ISBN: 9781912514267
AuthorMcAlinden, Orla
Pub Date05/09/2018
BindingTrade PB
CountryIRL
Dewey823.92
Publisher: Mentor Books
Quick overview In this beautifully-written and meticulously researched historical novel, inspired by true events, the stories of real Irish women convicts weave through a fictionalised account of life and love on board Her Majesty’s prison ship Australasia, which berthed at the penal colony in van Diemen’s Land, in June 1849, with 200 convicts and twenty-eight children. Themes of love, cruelty, desperation, and survival against overwhelming odds, are explored within their political and historical setting.Historical fiction set in Kildare.
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In County Kildare in 1849, twelve-year-old orphan Sarah Mahon trudges through the blighted landscape of the Irish famine, seeking employment and salvation from her destiny of workhouse or graveyard. In desperation she throws her lot in with Nellie Gordon, a ‘Curragh Wren’ eking out a living as a prostitute at one of the largest army camps in the British Isles. But Nellie has an escape plan, as soon as she can find a suitable victim.

In Hobart, Tasmania in 1919, Saoirse Gordon’s beloved grandmother, Sally, lies dying as the Spanish Influenza sweeps through the island of Tasmania. Will her grandmother find the strength and the courage to tell her story of flight and survival against all odds? Will the telling of the tale shatter Saoirse’s peaceful life forever?

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In County Kildare in 1849, twelve-year-old orphan Sarah Mahon trudges through the blighted landscape of the Irish famine, seeking employment and salvation from her destiny of workhouse or graveyard. In desperation she throws her lot in with Nellie Gordon, a ‘Curragh Wren’ eking out a living as a prostitute at one of the largest army camps in the British Isles. But Nellie has an escape plan, as soon as she can find a suitable victim.

In Hobart, Tasmania in 1919, Saoirse Gordon’s beloved grandmother, Sally, lies dying as the Spanish Influenza sweeps through the island of Tasmania. Will her grandmother find the strength and the courage to tell her story of flight and survival against all odds? Will the telling of the tale shatter Saoirse’s peaceful life forever?