Michael Mullen has written a novel that is full of memorable characters and breathes an authentic sense of history. It has excitement, romance, villainy and heroism, the whole well-seasoned with earthy humour.
Set in Mayo at the time of the Great Famine, but with the wider backdrop of France and America, it tells the story of Grainne Barrett, a fiery Irish heiress, and the revolutionary Myles Prendergast, at first her adversary and then her ally as they join forces against the ruthless Colonel Spiker.
Their romance is played out against an unforgettable background of rackrenting, hunger and struggle for survival. The Hungry Land is a powder-keg of a book.
A talented and ambitious writer.
Times Literary Supplement
Genre: Historical
Set in Mayo at the time of the Great Famine, but with the wider backdrop of France and America, it tells the story of Grainne Barrett, a fiery Irish heiress, and the revolutionary Myles Prendergast, at first her adversary and then her ally as they join forces against the ruthless Colonel Spiker.
Their romance is played out against an unforgettable background of rackrenting, hunger and struggle for survival. The Hungry Land is a powder-keg of a book.
A talented and ambitious writer.
Times Literary Supplement
Genre: Historical
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