From the author of the acclaimed The Whitest Flower comes the story of an unforgettable heroine, Ellen Rua O'Malley. Widowed by Ireland's Great Famine, she has fled her native land for Boston taking with her her two surviving children, Patrick and Mary, and the 'silent girl' rescued from the hordes of the dispossessed. Boston in the 1850s is the hub of the universe: gateway to America's temples of commerce and learning; liberal, sophisticated -- the very best place in all of the New World for a woman to be. There, awaiting Ellen, are the stability of a new life and Lavelle, the man who loves her. But Ellen, desperate to shake off the Old World, is driven by her own demons to put everything at risk. And Boston, on the brink of Civil War, seems only to mirror her own conflict, to sound the knell of her own battle for survival. A powerful and compelling tale of lives and loves dislocated, The Element of Fire captures emotions as timeless as life. And love.
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Reviews for The Whitest Flower: 'Irish history is like a gold seam for historical novelists. Occasionally a nugget is produced and Graham's is one of those.' Ireland on Sunday 'This huge sweep of a novel will whisk you from Ireland to Australia and Canada.' Woman's Realm
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Brendan Graham's first novel The Whitest Flower was published in 1998 to international praise. Born in Co. Tipperary in 1945, he now lives in Dublin.
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I really enjoyed this book because of its informative, historical storyline.
Anyone who only wants a book with a happy ending better not reads this book, it would be too "realistic" for your taste. However: it has given me a fair idea of what the Irish went through not so long ago; only 150/160 years. It has made me understand better when certain feelings get expressed, sometimes.
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