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Galway Bay
by Mary Pat Kelly
Honora Keeley has lived her entire life in Galway Bay as a fisherman's daughter and is about to give up all thoughts of marriage to join the nuns. However, before she can join the church, she meets Michael Kelly and falls in love. The two get married, start a family, and are wonderfully happy as potato farmers, but when the potato blight hits, it becomes difficult to feed themselves and their children. As the famine continues and the British rulers turn a blind eye to the Irish suffering, Honora must make a choice to either stay in her beloved Ireland or travel to America and the chance for a new life.
I have to admit that every time I heard about the potato famine, a part of me asked, "Why didn't they just eat fish or something else?" After reading this book, questions like those are no longer in my mind because Mary Pat Kelly does such an amazing job of portraying a typical Irish family during this difficult time. It was like getting a history lesson, only much more interesting than my high school teacher made it. I completely fell in love with Honora and Michael and enjoyed watching their family expand and prosper. When reading about the famine, the author took me through the complete span of emotions, from anger, to joy, to sadness (I actually cried at one point.) Another thing that I loved about this novel was how completely immersed I became in the story, I hated having to put this book down to do something else. There were parts where it dragged, but overall, I thought this was an amazing story.
I have to admit that every time I heard about the potato famine, a part of me asked, "Why didn't they just eat fish or something else?" After reading this book, questions like those are no longer in my mind because Mary Pat Kelly does such an amazing job of portraying a typical Irish family during this difficult time. It was like getting a history lesson, only much more interesting than my high school teacher made it. I completely fell in love with Honora and Michael and enjoyed watching their family expand and prosper. When reading about the famine, the author took me through the complete span of emotions, from anger, to joy, to sadness (I actually cried at one point.) Another thing that I loved about this novel was how completely immersed I became in the story, I hated having to put this book down to do something else. There were parts where it dragged, but overall, I thought this was an amazing story.