Included with a Kindle Unlimited membership.

Read with Kindle Unlimited

Buy new:

$16.99

Get Fast, Free Shipping with Amazon Prime & FREE Returns

FREE delivery Saturday, August 20 if you spend $25 on items shipped by Amazon

Or fastest delivery Wednesday, August 17. Order within 9 hrs 23 mins

Select delivery location

In Stock.

As an alternative, the Kindle eBook is available now and can be read on any device with the free Kindle app.

[{"displayPrice":"$16.99","priceAmount":16.99,"currencySymbol":"$","integerValue":"16","decimalSeparator":".","fractionalValue":"99","symbolPosition":"left","hasSpace":false,"showFractionalPartIfEmpty":true,"offerListingId":"ezKdiV9UkjokO8t4p2UB7v%2BR8ZclvYmHEUN3kRA7XW%2F3HAQaJzTgaODvJJVtnGdTg9u6UChDG0uGv4liTRScXhVkfIDbsO5Yw3Fon2pa4SvF%2Bx%2Ffb6w0Rg%2BeX%2FQOz1vymNaj3as95vKrrwNHV%2FnFAg%3D%3D","locale":"en-US","buyingOptionType":"NEW"}]

$$16.99 () Includes selected options. Includes initial monthly payment and selected options. Details

Secure transaction

Ships from

Amazon.com

Sold by

Amazon.com

Details

Ships from

Amazon.com

Sold by

Amazon.com

Return policy: Eligible for Return, Refund or Replacement within 30 days of receipt

Add a gift receipt for easy returns

Share <Embed>

Have one to sell?

Sell on Amazon

Other Sellers on Amazon

Added

Not added

$21.91
& FREE Shipping

Sold by: Yellow Book Sales

Added

Not added

$18.64
+ $3.99 shipping

Sold by: LadyLakeBooks

Flip to back Flip to front

Listen Playing... Paused You're listening to a sample of the Audible audio edition.
Learn more

See all 2 images

Follow the Author

Kaye Park Hinckley

The Wind That Shakes The Corn: Memoirs of a Scots Irish Woman Paperback – January 28, 2018

by Kaye Park Hinckley (Author)

26 ratings

See all formats and editions

Price

New from

Used from

Kindle

"Please retry"

$9.99

—

Paperback

"Please retry"

$16.99

$16.96

Kindle
$0.00 Read with Kindle Unlimited to also enjoy access to over 1 million more titles $9.99 to buy
Paperback
$16.99

1 Used from $16.96 4 New from $16.99

Enhance your purchase

2018 INDEPENDENT PRESS AWARD WINNER in Religious FictionFIRST RUNNER-UP: Josiah W. Bancroft Award, Florida First Coast Writer's FestivalFINALIST: Pirates Alley Society Faulkner/Wisdom CompetitionFINALIST: Tuscany Prize for Catholic FictionBeginning in eighteenth century Ireland and then set against the background of a burgeoning America, The Wind That Shakes the Corn tells the story of the feistiness of Scots Irish immigrants, and the heart-held faith and courage that led their struggle toward individualism in America. Nell Dugan's hatred, but also her love and determination, spotlights the Irish, both Protestant and Catholic, who bring to Revolutionary America age-old grudges against longtime English rule.On Nell's wedding night in Ireland, English soldiers abduct her from the arms of her Scottish Lord and throw her on a ship, slave-fodder for a West Indies sugar plantation. But Nell uses her beauty and cunning to seduce the plantation owner's son who sneaks her away to pre-revolutionary Philadelphia where she agrees to marry him, keeping secret her marriage to the Scottish lord she truly loves, and swearing to pay back the English not only for her own kidnapping but also for her mother's hanging two decades earlier. A story of love, hate, revenge, and the ever-hovering choice to forgive.PRAISE: "Kaye Hinckley writes deeply textured stories with a distinctive voice. Characters caught up in complex relationships, seeking yet often rejecting redemption." --Arthur Powers, A Hero for the People"A talented and sensitive Catholic writer whose complex stories are gripping, memorable, and abounding in nourishment for readers hungry for substantial Christian fiction. –The Catholic World Report"The reader is delighted by beautiful prose, then challenged to examine the longings of the soul. In the process he learns about faith. --Dr. Ron O'Gorman, MD,"Fatal Rhythm

Print length

488 pages
Language

English
Publication date

January 28, 2018
Dimensions

6.14 x 0.98 x 9.21 inches
ISBN-10

1984271016
ISBN-13

978-1984271013
See all details

Frequently bought together

+

Total price:

To see our price, add these items to your cart.

Choose items to buy together.

by Kaye Park Hinckley Paperback
$16.99
In Stock.
Ships from and sold by Amazon.com.
Get it as soon as Saturday, Aug 20
by Kaye Park Hinckley Paperback
$16.99
In Stock.
Ships from and sold by Amazon.com.
Get it as soon as Saturday, Aug 20

Editorial Reviews

Review

FIRST RUNNER-UP: Josiah W. Bancroft Award, Florida First Coast Writer's Festival

FINALIST: Pirates Alley Society Faulkner/Wisdom Competition

FINALIST: Tuscany Prize for Catholic Fiction

"I absolutely love this book and I cannot wait until it goes to print and is available for purchase. I was immediately drawn into the story because of its historical fiction plot and the characters were so well developed I felt like they could only be based off of someone living, who'd once been real and whose story we're getting a glimpse of now. I have recommended this book to my friends, and will continue to do so once it's available in printed format. Yay! Thank you, Kaye Park Hinckley, for such a wonderfully-delicious read!"
                                                     --Netgalley Reviewer 448621

PRAISE FOR BIRDS OF A FEATHER:Voted one of the Six Best Fiction Books from the First Half of 2014.

"Kaye Park Hinckley's stories give a fuller picture of the Christian faith. Like a bird-watcher, the thoughtful reader can even learn to spot the flutter of redemption in these stories." --Englewood Book Reviewer Magazine
Hinckley's characters are complicated. They've done horrible things, witnessed horrible things, been the victims of horrible things, yet they continue rising each morning and putting one foot in front of the other. They fulfill their obligations to each other while these horrible things gnaw at them from the inside out. Hinckley deftly presents the repulsiveness of her character's actions, while also revealing her characters' drive toward love. ..fully developed plots and well-rounded characters.                                  --Lake Oconee Living Magazine, Lucy Adams               "The birds in Kaye Park Hinckley's short story collection, "Birds of a Feather," all find themselves from flocks of Catholics. Their family members, or at least a shining few, believe in forgiveness, hope and redemption. But it's the sinners with whom we most sympathize. How can we not? Hinckley's expert literary craftsmanship is matched by the drama of Judeo-Christian values confronting American relativism and egoism.  " -- ANGELUS, The Tidings Online, Jennifer Ann Jones

From the Author

The book is the epic saga of a woman of strength and conviction, yet time and time again, she is in battle with her inner demons--revenge and hatred. This is not your run-of-the-mill historical romance, it is much deeper; about a lifetime search for love. For some of us, it takes that long! But even through those searching times, a man desires to love a woman, a parent wants to love his child, and a friend can exhibit the highest forms of loyalty.

Set in the eighteenth century, during the dawning of the new America fighting to rule itself rather than to continue as a colony of the English Crown, the novel begins with an Irish peasant girl, Nell, as she watches her mother being hung by English soldiers.

Yet we soon see that Nell is a definite type 'A' personality. We see her competiveness and confidence as she develops from girl to woman, to lover, to wife, to a slave in the West Indies, and to a loyal friend, while always in battle with the very human characteristics that destroy love--consistent hatred, revenge, and refusal to forgive. These are Nell's inner demons. Demons we recognize in ourselves.

Will she choose to let them go?
If you had lived her life, would you?

Start reading The Wind That Shakes The Corn on your Kindle in under a minute.

Don't have a Kindle? Get your Kindle here, or download a FREE Kindle Reading App.

Product details

Publisher ‏ : ‎ CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform; First Edition (January 28, 2018)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 488 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1984271016
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1984271013
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.49 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.14 x 0.98 x 9.21 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #2,328,985 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #107,173 in Literary Fiction (Books)

Customer Reviews:
26 ratings

About the author

Follow authors to get new release updates, plus improved recommendations.

Kaye Park Hinckley

Brief content visible, double tap to read full content.

Full content visible, double tap to read brief content.

Friends who know me ask how I kept hope of someday finding a publisher during the raising of my five children, along with my commitment to run a business for nearly twenty years. I answer that a woman is by nature creative. Home, family and community are actually springboards to creativity. Aspiration is sparked by her heart, is strengthened her trials, and finds its way into the concrete world through commitment to truth.

My writing is concerned with error and Truth. When Truth is exchanged for lies of the moment, you have a story that begins in the human heart--when hatred replaces love because my new enemy doesn't look or think like me, when anger becomes a fist to the face of a wife, or child, or friend, when a hidden hand steals because what it has is not enough, when every hunger must be satisfied, when my place in the sun is secured by dishonesty. By the standard set in our hearts, these are failings. So, after our failings, what is possible? Contrition, forgiveness, and redemption. My stories contain these themes. They are stories about what it means to be an imperfect person in an imperfect world.

Customer reviews

5 star		82%
4 star		18%
3 star 0% (0%)		0%
2 star 0% (0%)		0%
1 star 0% (0%)		0%

How customer reviews and ratings work

Top reviews from the United States

There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later.

Padrina

Gripping Story

Reviewed in the United States on March 14, 2021

Verified Purchase

First of all, my usual complaint about books in Kindle format--that of faulty copy-editing--happily does not apply to this book! I only noticed a very few homonyms (e.g., "sewed" used instead of "sowed," when planting crops is indicated). Everything else is fine, in that regard.

Content-wise, the author does a very effective job of placing the reader in the times she writes about. We follow the main character, Nell, through all of the myriad of usually violent upheavals in her life, and in different parts of the world. The author uses her to personify the vile experience of bigotry and the cruelty of the times and places Nell lives in, thereby telling us a cautionary tale of selfishness/concupiscence and its many consequences. For awhile, too, I wondered if we would get an origin story of the Melungeon people of the Appalachians, but that did not develop, after all.

The author's writing is excellent--but I found the book to be somewhat mentally exhausting, nonetheless, and, frankly, the epilogue's ending unfortunately ruined the whole book for me, leaving me feeling depressed, instead of inspired. (So, if you're the moody sort, just plan to skip the epilogue!) The historical background material which follows is quite interesting, however.

Helpful

Molly's Momma

One of the best stories I’ve ever read

Reviewed in the United States on December 28, 2020

Verified Purchase

I just finished this outstanding multi-generational saga and I can’t begin to express how I feel right now. The language, the imagery, the historical accuracy about the largely unknown fate of the persecuted Irish Catholics in the sixteenth through nineteenth centuries, the universality of human struggles with revenge and religious beliefs—what a stunning and life-changing piece of literature. I could compare this story to the Poldark series in some ways, but in other ways it made me feel like The Thorn Birds and even North and South a little bit? Everyone should read this! How have I waited so long to find this book and this author?

One person found this helpful

Helpful

Never Mind Me

well done. heartbreaking, but well done.

Reviewed in the United States on June 10, 2021

Verified Purchase

The desire to see justice done is a legitimate one, as is the desire of a people to live in freedom. Being human, we struggle with the need to forgive our adversaries, bearing the pain they've caused us, our loved ones, and our nation - and not give way to hatred, senseless vengeance, and bitterness. Hinckley balances these themes on the edge of a knife.

This historical novel isn't just another account of the injustices against the Irish and the role they played in the American revolutionary war. It's the story of a family and its indomitable matriarch, who is loosely based on the author's ancestress, and it's emotionally gripping and educational at the same time.

Helpful

Meggie Daly

One of my favorite books ever!

Reviewed in the United States on March 11, 2018

Verified Purchase

"The Wind That Shakes The Corn" is one of the best books that I have read. Historical fiction is my favorite genre and this book did not disappoint. My daughter just ordered it based on my glowing recommendation. Being of Irish Catholic descent on my mother’s side, I relished the storyline. The author's use of language is simply beautiful; I highlighted many passages so that I could go back to reread them. Hinckley skillfully weaves the history of the Irish-Scottish-English battles, the slave trade, and Early American-English conflicts from 1723-1810 through her characters’ day-to-day lives, sorrows, remorse, and joys. Colonial American history came alive for me in a new way. Major themes in the book are man's inhumanity, struggle for vindication, and the struggle to forgive. The novel is jam-packed with wisdom. I loved it! I look forward to reading more of her novels.

One person found this helpful

Helpful

Cat-sensei

Well written, exciting story

Reviewed in the United States on June 21, 2018

Verified Purchase

I loved this sweeping historical tale that moves from Ireland to the West Indies and ends in America. I had no idea that Scots and Irish people were enslaved alongside Africans so I learned from this story too. The central character is a strong woman and the other characters are well written. I definitely recommend this book.

Helpful

azlaydey

A look back into history

Reviewed in the United States on August 15, 2018

Verified Purchase

For those readers that love historical novels, this one certainly gives you the sense of how it would have been to live, struggle, and suffer during those times. Being based on an actual person makes it even more poignant.

One person found this helpful

Helpful

Gayle B. Wadsworth

If you enjoy curling up with a good book-one you can't put ...

Reviewed in the United States on February 9, 2018

Verified Purchase

If you enjoy curling up with a good book-one you can't put down; if you find yourself caught up in the lives of the characters and care about them; if the historical context makes the story come alive - then you will find Kaye Park Hinckley's novel, The Wind That Shakes The Corn: Memoirs of a Scots Irish Women, a very satisfying read. Looking forward to more from this very talented author.

Reviewed in the United States on June 4, 2018

Verified Purchase

Amazing story, wonderfully told. I want to read it again

Helpful