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The Killing Snows

(2008)
(The first book in the Irish Famine series)
A novel by

 
 
This book is fiction. The story that inspired it was not.
In 1846, a young couple met during the worst days of the Great Irish Famine. 'The Killing Snows' is a way to imagine what led to their meeting and what followed from it.

In 1990, a box of very old documents was found on a small farm in the west of Ireland. They had been stored for well over a hundred years and told an incredible story of suffering, of love and of courage.
The story of how one family survived.
The story of two young people who defied their fate.
The story of The Killing Snows.




Genre: Historical

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