Katherine Elizabeth, Full of Grace

by Laurel Ericson

Born in Roscommon, Ireland in 1888, Kittie McDermott is raised in a one-room cottage, the only daughter among ten children. Years after the Potato Famine, in which hundreds of thousands of people died of starvation, it is still a struggle for most families to put food on the table. While poverty and uncertainty is the reality, the Church is the constant that holds everyone together.Kittie is unaware of her good fortune to have a loving family to grow up in and a circle of close friends to depend on until a heart-breaking event occurs, changing her circumstances forever. Determined to make her life her own, she must endure the consequences of her actions, which takes her on a journey she never could have imagined.Based on a true story, Katherine Elizabeth, Full of Grace will have you escaping to a quiet corner to read just one more chapter and is bound to make you wonder about your own ancestors and the lives they led before you were born.

203 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 8, 2013

About the author

LAUREL ERICSON is the mother of two grown daughters. She lives on a lake in mid-coast Maine with her husband and an old gray cat.

Reviews

[Harry McClellan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Katherine Elizabeth, Full of Grace

What an enjoyable book I loved the characters were great entwined in each others lives. Reading many books on Irish fact and fiction this was entirely believable. Being of 2\3s Irish and the rest Welsh and English I'd say this was great find in books. I felt left dangling at the end I do hope there is a companion book because I need completion. Thanks

[Constance H. Rowe · Rating 3 out of 5]

Mediocre

This book was an easy read with few plot twists and mediocre character development. It was an ok book about an ordinary string of events.

[Irene Melfi · Rating 3 out of 5]

You move quickly through the book. Not great character development. Plot situations leave questions and at the end I was looking for what seemed like "lost" chapters. Not an unpleasant book, just incomplete.