ASIN: B011P3SA02
Publisher: SAVOIR Press
Pages: 366
The Angel of Innisfree is a Victorian-era historical romance that weaves a story of love overcoming every obstacle during one of the most tumultuous periods in history, when revolutions in Europe and the Civil War in the United States transformed the basic foundations of society, while inventions such as the telegraph changed the way the world worked.It begins in 1848, a time when the Irish Potato Famine had already claimed half a million lives, while English landlords continued to evict their tenants with a ruthless lack of compassion. Young Brian O’Rourke, a Catholic son in an impoverished family of Ribbonmen meets Elizabeth Reilly, a talented Protestant pianist from London when she’s visiting her father in Ireland. After secretly promising themselves to each other at the age of sixteen, their twisted fates encounter unforeseen difficulties when Elizabeth returns to London to study ...
