Grace by Paul Lynch6/6/2023 ![]() The potato harvest has failed and Grace doesn’t fully grasp what is to come as the landlord’s rent collector will want a rent that cannot be payed. As the story begins, Grace, a young, girl of twelve, is living with her subsistence farming mother and siblings in a hut in The Black Mountains in Donegal. ![]() This book covers several themes, why was there a famine, who starved and why, and what are people capable of when faced with hunger. Grace, a story of the famine as if you were, there tells the story of Grace’s survival, read for the Roman De Rochefort. Colly says, this was a house of tree eaters, I told you this was going on. She wonders why an elm has had its bark stripped to head height and sees another just like it. They stand in the yard of an abandoned farmhouse that shapes its gloom over a barren garden, a feeling of emptiness like presence. ![]()
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