![]() She travels with hardened and violent people and then finds herself joining Bart, a kind and protective young man of eighteen.ĭuring Grace’s travels, Lynch brilliantly portrays a distressed landscape exposed to too much rain and flooding in such a poetic way. Toughtened by harsh circumstances Grace withstands oppressive hardship by joining others on the road. Disguised as a boy, Grace picks up one job after another always exhausted and on the brink of starvation. What Grace finds, however, is a land of dying crops and desperate people. With gorgeous prose, Paul Lynch sets Grace on a journey to make her way across Ireland in the hopes of finding a better life. ![]() Grace’s mother, Sarah, has too many mouths to feed, so she sends her daughter on her way after cutting her hair and getting Grace into her father’s old clothes. Winter is coming in the year of 1845 and 14 year old Grace from Blackmountain in Northern Donegal is quickly pushed out the door to find her own way during the Irish Famine. ![]()
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