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Lizzie, 20, laundress of Legananny, Northern Ireland sets off with her half sister, Eliza, and her cousin, James, by ship to America. This is the story of her voyage, her immigration and her adventures as an indentured servant for a prominent religious family in Newton Lower Falls, Massachusetts for one year. Boston of 1892 is a cauldron of political upheaval, new inventions, and deep-seated prejudice against the Irish. If Lizzie avoids being sent home for her temper or incompetence in the kitchen, will she find employment in a world where "no Irish need apply"? Will she marry the minister...

In the year since Lizzie Heenan left Legananny, she crosses the vast Atlantic Ocean, and becomes indentured to a minister's family in Newton Lower Falls of Massachusetts. Although she learns to be a skillful cook, she seeks to be employed as a laundress as she was in Northern Ireland. When her indenture is terminated, she moves to South Boston with her mother and half sister. Lizzie has always lived her life on her own terms, but recent events have subdued her outspoken tongue, her undaunting confidence and her joyful adventurous spirit. In her new home, the three women meet Will and Charlie,...

Under remarkable circumstances, Maggie Coburn, child of a desperately poor Scottish shepherd, moves with her family to the mountain farmland of Northern Ireland in 1854. Her journey to the Legananny begins a long, secret friendship with a soldier of the Scots Fusilier Guards, the future 5th Earl of Annesley. What expectation could Maggie, the lovely crippled maid of Legananny, have of being wife and mother, in the harsh conditions and superstitions of rural County Down? Would Joseph, the wild Irish boy who claims to love her, consent to be shackled to a wife who cannot walk or help with his...