A Pocket Full of Shells

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

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

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

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

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