In Deep Dark Wood (16 page)
Authors: Marita Conlon-Mckenna
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UNDER THE HAWTHORN TREE
Winner International Reading Association Award; Reading Association of Ireland Award
Ireland in the 1840s is devastated by famine. When tragedy strikes their family, Eily, Michael and Peggy are left to fend for themselves. Starving and in danger of ending up in the dreaded workhouse, they escape. Their one hope is to find the great-aunts they have heard about in their mother’s stories.
Winner Bisto Merit Award – Historical Fiction
Peggy, from Under the Hawthorn Tree, is now thirteen and must leave Ireland for America. After a terrible journey on board ship, she arrives in Boston. What kind of life will she find there?
In Ireland, Eily and her family struggle to make a living on a small farm. Michael works with horses at the Big House, while in America, Peggy hears the call of the wild west. Will the family ever be together again?
