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The Killing Snows
The Killing Snows: The Defining Novel of the Great Irish Famine | Charles Egan
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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
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A beautiful land and people consumed by famine and killing snows. Charles Egan writes plainly and reader is brought along through the horrors of this time and place. A wretched time to have lived and the reader can practically smell the black fever and feel the hunger pains and clinching cold. The Irish spirit defined well in the telling.