- Paperback: 368 pages
- Publisher: HarperCollins; First Edition edition (21 May 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0007110022
- ISBN-13: 978-0007110025
- Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 15.6 x 3.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,245,026 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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‘Irish history is like a gold seam for historical novelists. Occasionally a nugget is produced and Graham’s is one of those.’ Ireland on Sunday
‘The guy can write. Lyrical music. Musical prose.’
Sunday Independent
‘A remarkable and emotional odyssey which uses the great Irish Famine and the subsequent diaspora as the subject matter for a novel of immense potency.’ Irish Post
‘This huge sweep of a novel will whisk you from Ireland to Australia and Canada.’ Woman’s Realm
‘The Whitest Flower is a disturbing, challenging, and rewarding read, which puts our history in context and through Ellen Rua O’Malley reminds us of the beauty of a pilgram life well lived.’
Fr. Brian Darcy, Sunday World
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The sequel to the highly-acclaimed The Whitest Flower.
Widowed by Ireland’s Great Famine, Ellen Rua O’Malley flees her native land for Boston and the New World: with her are her two surviving children, Patrick and Mary, and the ‘silent girl’ whom Ellen has found wandering among the hordes of the dispossessed.
In Boston awaits the man who loves her, Lavelle, and the hope and stability which she craves: but is shaking off the Old World, its customs, its language, the answer she believes it to be? Or is she destined to be caught between past and present, between two loves? When a man from her past reappers it seems that her own conflict can only lead to a fall from grace.
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Format:Paperback
I think that Graham's sequel to the The Whitest Flower is excellent, very well-written, interesting and unputdownable. It is predictable, somehow, but as a reader I really wanted to finish it fast, to find out what had happened to Ellen and her family. The 3rd book of the trilogy is already out but have not read it yet!!
Format:Paperback
I have waited two years on this book following my love of the first part, The Whitest Flower. I am happy to report that Ellen is still a wonderful character to read about and the author still displays great skill, imagination and humanity in his story telling. I enjoyed this book every bit as much as the last until I read the last page. While this is not a story to be missed by fans of the Whitest Flower those same fans will be heartbroken when it concludes and for all the wrong reasons.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Sad and moving
24 Jun 2010
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
I really enjoyed this book because of its informative, historical storyline.
Anyone who only wants a book with a happy ending better not reads this book, it would be too "realistic" for your taste.
However: it has given me a fair idea of what the Irish went through not so long ago; only 150/160 years. It has made me understand better when certain feelings get expressed, sometimes.
Anyone who only wants a book with a happy ending better not reads this book, it would be too "realistic" for your taste.
However: it has given me a fair idea of what the Irish went through not so long ago; only 150/160 years. It has made me understand better when certain feelings get expressed, sometimes.
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