The Great Hunger (The Daring of Miss Jane Walden Book 1) (English Edition) [Kindle-editie] beoordelingen het boek quotes

The Great Hunger won first place in women’s fiction for the Royal Palm Literary Awards of 2008. It is The Unsinkable Molly Brown meets The Grapes of Wrath when self-empowered journalist Jane Walden butts heads with the Irish bureaucracy while seeking to separate the political blight from the potato blight during the 19th century Potato Famine. Fed up with the John O'Connell Conciliation Hall government runaround, Jane takes the reins in her own hands and travels alone 150 miles by wagon from Dublin to Cork seeking the truth behind the family farm evictions. Lighting on a young country doctor, she plays nurse in a nearby cholera epidemic to gain firsthand information. There smitten by her first true love, she fights to decide whether to succumb to her natural drives or continue to drive on independently toward the political truth.