Under the Hawthorn Tree : Children of the Famine by Marita Conlon-McKenna

Under the Hawthorn Tree : Children of the Famine by Marita Conlon-McKennaThe first book in the famine trilogy Under the Hawthorn Tree is Ireland's top selling children's book and a classic for young readers worldwide. Ireland in the 1840s is devastated by famine. When tragedy strikes their family, Eily, Michael and Peggy are left to fend for themselves. Starving and in danger of the dreaded workhouse, they escape. Their one hope is to find the great aunts they have heard about in their mother's stories. With tremendous

when war breaks out

but leave you amazed and uplifted by the courage and fierce love of three sisters

Invisible Women reveals how in a world built for and by men we are systematically ignoring half of the population

An international phenomenon and pop-culture classic

The man who travelled to see the girl who he could not marry and the old detective who never gave his wife that gift

and THE SILENCE OF THE GIRLS

and there's lots and lots of crashing and bashing

and so cleansed the land

Spanning a century and two continents - from the muddy fields of Ireland to a hotel room in Paris

come rain or shine

to a meeting of an Arctic explorer's society in Berlin

'Precise and beautifully controlled fictions but with strange