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The wormdigger's daughter / John Farrell.

Title
The wormdigger's daughter / John Farrell.
Author
Farrell, John
Publication
Douglas Village, Cork : Mercier Press, c2008.

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Description
251 p.; 20 cm.
Summary
The Wormdigger's Daughter is the heartbreaking story of a family on the run. It is a tale of tragic resonance, which depicts a universal struggle against injustice and oppression. The author first heard the story when he was a boy of twelve. He was huddled in a roadside tent in the midst of a bitter winter and was told the tale by the then frail and elderly Molly and her husband Frank. The couple had been working on a large estate in Meath where the hardship of their life had already claimed the lives of their three young sons. Their remaining child, Angel, was the focus of all their love and hope for the future. When they overheard a friend of the master of the estate lay claim to their daughter they left secretly in the dead of night, but were then falsely accused of stealing and forced to become fugitives. They disguised Angel as a boy to maintain their cover and found help from sympathetic farmers along the road. Their lives were governed by the terror of being discovered and arrested, and above all, by their fear of what would happen to their daughter if she had to return to the estate. -- Amazon.com.
Subject
Ireland > Fiction
Genre/Form
Fiction
Note
  • LC copy signed by author.
ISBN
9781856355742 (pbk.)
LCCN
^^2008396545
OCLC
  • 221265354
  • SCSB-12879922
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library