Set against the backdrop of the Great Famine, this is the story of the triumph of one woman amidst Ireland's despair. It is August 1845. In Dublin's Botanic Gardens, Phytophora infestans is discovered for the first time. The bacteria was to result in the Great Famine, an event of holocaust proportions that affected every man, woman and child in Ireland. England's shame; Ireland's tragedy . Ellen O'Malley is one such victim. She loses her husband, is duped into going to Australia to lead a better life, leaving three of her beloved children behind. She travels aboard a coffin ship and arrives emaciated and ill with her new baby. But Ellen, a woman with an indomitable spirit, rises above her oppression and eventually returns to wreak revenge on those perpetrators of her misery.
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'Irish history is like a gold seam for historical novelists -- there to be mined. Occasionally a nuggest is produced and Graham's is one of those.' Ireland on Sunday 'The guy can write. Lyrical music. Musical prose.' Sunday Independent 'Posted for worldwide literary success. A gripping page-turner about one of the grossest stains on the British Empire.' Hotpress 'A remarkable and emotional odyssey which uses the great Irish famine and the subsequent diaspora as the subject matter for a novel of immense potency.' Irish Post 'This huge sweep of a novel will whisk you from Ireland to Australia and Canada.' Woman's Realm
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Brendan Graham is the songwriter who penned the last two Irish winning entries in the Eurovision Song Contest. Highly promotable, he is a public figure in the Irish music business with many media contacts. The Whitest Flower is his first novel.
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I checked this out just to see how it was rated, and to see if other people enjoyed it as much as I did and was shocked to see only one review. I am an avid reader and this is definately in my top ten books. I read it about 6 years ago. Give it a go........ I recommend it and I don't do that often.
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Very entertaining historical fiction,
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This is a very entertaining way to read about a pretty horrible slice in Irish history. This is one of those books that is hard to put down. I highly recommend it.
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