A Year of Broken Promises

Sequel to A Pocket Full Of Shells, the first part of An Irish Family Saga, this work changes course slightly from the earlier one which dealt with misery of Ireland due to potato blight, starvation, and resulting migrations, and goes into the continued misery of the poor with added travails due to r......more

Sequel to A Pocket Full Of Shells, the first part of An Irish Family Saga, this work changes course slightly from the earlier one which dealt with misery of Ireland due to potato blight, starvation, and resulting migrations, and goes into the continued misery of the poor with added travails due to r......more

Great historical fiction about the Ireland Another great historical fiction book about Ireland. The economy forced so many of the Irish to have to immigrate to other countries just so they could feed their families. The sacrifices they made and having to give up their country, while yearning to go ba......more

A well written historical novel I enjoyed the characters Jean Reinhardt has created in this historical novel. They drew me in and made me want to learn more about what each of them were thinking and doing so that I found myself reading far more pages at a time than I had originally intended.......more

a good story but quite predictable.......more