Land: A Novel

by Maggie O'Farrell

Knopf/PRH 

      This is such a brilliant novel - warm, magical, funny and heartbreaking. The horrors of the recent Famine and the occupation by the British begin the story of these amazing people who survive by helping each other as much as they can. People starve and others "go away" leaving a very small but strong group on this west Ireland peninsula. Family and land come together to produce something beautiful - a place and a time you'll want to return to often.

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