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Marita Conlon-McKenna

Born in Dublin in 1956 and brought up in Goatstown, Marita went to school at the Convent of the Sacred Heart, Mount Anville, later working in the family business, the bank, and a travel agency. She has four children with her husband James, and they live in the Stillorgan area of Dublin. Marita was always fascinated by the Famine period in Irish history and read everything available on the subject. When she heard a radio report of an unmarked children's grave from the Famine period being found under a hawthorn tree, she decided to write her first book, Under the Hawthorn Tree.

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Title:: Fields of Home
Series:: Children of the Famine #3
Written by:: Marita Conlon-McKenna
Read by:: Caroline Lennon
Format:: Unabridged CD Audio Book
Number of CDs:: 4
Duration:: 4 hours 15 minutes
Published:: October 28 2016
Available Date:: October 28 2016
Age Category:: Children (10+)
ISBN:: 9781489362797
Genres:: Fiction; Children's Fiction; Family Sagas
Publisher:: Bolinda/O'Brien audio

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One of the greatest historical fiction adventures in children's literature.

For Eily, Michael and Peggy the memory of the famine is still strong. But Mary-Brigid, Eily's first child, has the future to look forward to. What kind of future is it? Ireland is in turmoil, with evictions, burnings, secret meetings, fights over land. Eily and her family may be thrown off their farm. Michael may lose his job in the big house. And Peggy, in America, feels trapped in her role as a maid. Will they ever have land and a home they can call their own? Eily, Michael and Peggy have once shown great courage. Now this courage is called on again …