A Pocket Full of Shells, Jean Reinhardt
A Pocket Full of Shells, Jean Reinhardt
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A Pocket Full of Shells

Author: Jean Reinhardt

Narrator: Michael Healy

Unabridged: 3 hr 26 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 06/14/2017

Categories: Fiction, Family Life


Synopsis

In 1846 a baby girl is born to a young Irish fisherman and his wife. It is the second year of the Great Hunger and the young couple choose to remain in Ireland, while family and friends are leaving. Their story takes place in the fishing village of Blackrock, Dundalk, but with the cities of Liverpool and Sunderland playing a critical part in their lives. Is their love for each other and their homeland enough to sustain them, or will they be forced to join the one and a half million who emigrate? This is the story of a young man's love for his wife and child and the struggle to provide for his family in one of the darkest periods of Ireland's history.

About Jean Reinhardt

Jean Reinhardt lives in a seaside town in Cork, Ireland. In addition to the Irish Family Saga, she is the author of the Finding Trilogy, a young adult suspense series.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Ian on June 10, 2014

This is more of a novella, and is set in Ireland during the great potato blight. Jean Reinhardt has certainly shown up the miserable conditions, and she focused on two characters, Mary and James McGrother, who were somewhat better off than most, because James was a fisherman, albeit one who merely h......more

Goodreads review by Christine G Bridger on September 13, 2016

A n emotional story I choose this book as it gave a history of the Irish potato Famine along with a lovely love story. Telling how the families survived or died this terrible time. It leaves you with wanting to know more . I could have carried on reading.......more

Goodreads review by Julia on May 17, 2016

There wasn't an awful lot to this story in that I didn't hang on every word to see what happened. But I did like it and think it deserves three stars. I was drawn into the life of James and Mary and there were some other very interesting characters along the way. It depicted Ireland in the 1840's dur......more

Goodreads review by Ellin on February 23, 2015

Good Irish story Well written account of the famine years in Ireland portraying the hardships those families had to endure to survive. Good Irish history.......more

Goodreads review by Dr.J.G. on May 30, 2020

A Pocket Full of Shells, the title, refers to a baby daughter's gift for her father who's gone across the Irish sea to earn money for the family, a gift picked by the little toddler herself and sent through her mother who visits him when she receives a message about his being ill. The book is first i......more