Across the bitter sea

Eilis Dillon

first published 1973 Trafalgar Square, 1987 paperback 496 pages

This is the novel of Ireland in the tumultuous years from the mid-19th-century famine to the Easter Rebellion. The Irish peasants were scraping the earth to stay alive, when Alice found herself thrown into a world of plenty through her marriage to the wealthy landowner, Samuel Flaherty. She grew to love her husband for his fairness and gentility. She grew to understand the need for peace. But Alice never outgrew her...

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Across the Bitter Sea (Coronet Books) paperback · 1987 · Trafalgar Square · 496 pages · 9780340188026
Across the bitter sea edition · 1974 · Hodder and Stoughton · 571 pages
Across the bitter sea edition · 1973 · Simon and Schuster · 571 pages

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