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The Invasion (The Call, #2)
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After so much danger, Nessa and Anto can finally dream of a happy life. But the terrible attack on...
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One Day meets The Time Traveler's Wife in this spellbinding, magical debut novel about love, loss,...
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The Lords of the Wind (The Saga of Hasting the Avenger #1)
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Orphaned as a child by a blood-feud, and sold as a slave to an exiled chieftain in Ireland, the boy...
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1587. England is at war with Spain. The people of Devon wait in terror for King Philip of Spain’s...
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The gripping thriller about one man's perilous journey through the high seas . . . FROM THE NO. 1...
ClareR (6238 KP) rated The Walking People in Books
Dec 14, 2022
Greta makes a life for HERself once she’s in New York - out of the shadow of her more confident sister, but in doing so, she ends up keeping secrets that I wondered would have been better shared. But these are people constrained by the times they live in and the place they come from.
I really enjoyed following the lives of Greta and Michael as they struggled (and succeeded) to make lives for themselves. Part of me wondered why anyone would want to leave the beauty of rural Ireland for the hustle of New York, but in reality there was nothing there for a lot of young people. If they wanted to earn money and have a job, they left for America and the UK.
It’s just a lovely story, and I thoroughly enjoyed reading this story of a family that loses touch and finds one another years later - with a bittersweet ending.
Recommended.