The Whitest Flower Book

Feel like curling up in front of the fire one grey afternoon and escaping the mundanity of your nine to five life? Then clutch this epic historical romance to your bosom and succumb to a tale that will take you from famine stricken Ireland in the 1840s to the aborigine bushlands in Australia, the immigrant-strewn shores of Boston and back. At the heart of the book is the formidable heroine Ellen Dua, an Irish firebrand who loses her husband to the famine and her children to an unscrupulous Irish landowner. Her efforts to regain the things she holds dear is a roller-coaster journey of passion and despair, though Graham is at his best in his early descriptions of the Irish homeland she is forced to give up. Nearly every human tragedy imaginable occurs in this novel, and yet still, somehow, Ellen's undoubtable spiritual goodness shines through the tears. The clicheÁs might fly at you thick and fast, but with escapism this good, you'll be too busy hanging on with your hand in your mouth until the bitter end to notice. -- Claire AllfreeRead More