num_pages: 427
description:  Its 1846 in Ireland. When her familys small farm is struck by famine Clare Hanley and her younger brother Seamus set out across the ocean to the Promised Land of America.Five years prior Clares older sister Margaret and her Uncle Tomas emigrated in similar fashion and were not to be heard from again. But Clare must face her fears as she lands in the coming-of-age city of New York. There she discovers love adventure tragedy and a terrible secret which threatens to destroy her family and all she believes.Flight of the Earls is the first book in a historical novel trilogy based on Irish immigration in the 1840s.
language: English
title: Flight of the Earls
publisher: B&H Books