Description
Fourteen-year-old Grace is thrust into survival when her frightened, beaten mother makes a desperate choice—cutting her hair, binding her body, and urging her to live as a boy to outrun the family’s looming ruin. From that moment, Grace’s solitary flight across nineteenth-century Ireland becomes both a physical journey and a test of identity, as she navigates hunger, violence, and the fragile, shifting lines between safety and exposure. In a sweeping, Dickensian sweep of streets and roads, Grace encounters people who complicate her flight and force her to confront what it means to endure when the world is closing in. Paul Lynch’s refined, high-intensity prose—unflinching and lyrical at once—turns this into a story about resilience, transformation, and the brutal costs of survival on the eve of the Great Famine.
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paperback
Back Bay Books
Published Jun 26, 2018
368 pages
ISBN: 9780316316286
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First Published
2017
Language
eng
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