Patricia Falvey
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The Yellow House
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2010
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20 editions
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The Titanic Sisters
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2019
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23 editions
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The Girls of Ennismore
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2017
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22 editions
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The Linen Queen
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2011
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16 editions
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The Famine Orphans
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2025
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4 editions
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"Loved this one!
What a great story about a group of orphan girls led to believe they're gifted a great opportunity. Well things can be deceiving.... But with perseverance and a bit of Irish luck, things turn around. Really liked the verses of the Iris" Read more of this review » |
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"This outstanding historical fiction novel, based on historical fact, depicts THE EARL GREY scheme in which young, female Irish famine victims were transported to Australia to work as domestic servants.
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"15 year old Kate Gilvarry and her family lived a simple yet contented life as tenant farmers until the potato famine of 1847 destroyed their livelihood and tore her family apart. her older brother left to find work in the city; her father just left, "
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“Secrets are like the cancer of families. Like tumors, they grow ever larger, and if they are not removed, they suffocate the mind and spirit, and spawn madness. As long as they remain, they cast a shadow on every truth that is uttered, clouding it, constricting it, disporting it. Secrets hurt the secret keeper as much as the poor souls from whom the secret is kept. And even once the secret is out, its shadow echoes into the future, the remnants of its memory leaving us vigilant and fearful.”
― The Yellow House
― The Yellow House
“I know what it means, Brendan cut in gruffly, I'm not ignorant for fuck's sake.”
― The Girls of Ennismore
― The Girls of Ennismore
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| Mystery/Thriller ...: First Lines | 123 | 111 | Oct 01, 2010 06:02AM | |
| The Life of a Boo...: LemonLinda's Personal Reading Goal 2010 | 156 | 256 | Oct 19, 2010 05:48AM | |
| Challenge: 50 Books: Helene's 50 Book Challenge 2010 | 95 | 218 | Oct 26, 2010 02:58AM | |
| Challenge: 50 Books: Bob's 2010 Book Shelf | 68 | 174 | Dec 31, 2010 07:16PM | |
| Challenge: 50 Books: Kristine I's 2010 Reading Challenge | 83 | 227 | Jan 03, 2011 07:09PM | |
| Every one's Choice: Winners for March | 35 | 20 | Mar 04, 2011 06:01AM | |
| Historical Fictio...: March Mini-Challenge: March 1st-March 31st | 142 | 161 | Mar 27, 2011 07:09PM | |
| Mystery/Thriller ...: Library Saturday | 546 | 166 | Jan 28, 2012 04:30PM | |
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| Cover to Cover Ch...: July Read-a-thon - Reporting and Progress | 119 | 52 | Aug 02, 2012 04:26PM |
“Secrets are like the cancer of families. Like tumors, they grow ever larger, and if they are not removed, they suffocate the mind and spirit, and spawn madness. As long as they remain, they cast a shadow on every truth that is uttered, clouding it, constricting it, disporting it. Secrets hurt the secret keeper as much as the poor souls from whom the secret is kept. And even once the secret is out, its shadow echoes into the future, the remnants of its memory leaving us vigilant and fearful.”
― The Yellow House
― The Yellow House












































