This is a novel about a time when history was about to explode. It is set in a period just before the Great War, before the Easter Rising, before the War of Independence and leading up to the 1913 Lockout in Ireland. Big Jim Larkin, James Connolly and Richard Corish were striding the streets of Wexford. It is a story of an ordinary woman and her life. It is a story of service and courage. Vonnie Banville Evans draws upon her own Grandmother's life and the history of her home town. She reflects the language, beliefs and hopes of the people of that time. She writes with great sympathy for all...
This is a novel about a time when history was about to explode. It is set in a period just before the Great War, before the Easter Rising, before the ...
This is a historical novel set in Southern Ireland.It is 1949 and Anna is thirteen. She having a recurrent dream about 1649 and a girl called Nanette. Can she really reach back three hundred years to influence those infamous days in the story of Wexford? Can she really understand the courage it takes for one small girl to stand up and be counted? Is it all a dream or is it a race to learn the secret of the Rocks before history runs out of time?
This is a historical novel set in Southern Ireland.It is 1949 and Anna is thirteen. She having a recurrent dream about 1649 and a girl called Nanette....