Silk Stocking
Reeks: Daughters of Ireland
Jeanne Charters
- Three
- generations
- of
- Irish
- American
- women
- seek
- better
- lives
- in
- Boston,
- in
- this
- historical
- saga
- of
- hope,
- hardship,
- and
- love
- by
- the
- author
- of
- Lace
- Curtain.Mary
- Boland
- suffered
- aboard
- a
- coffin
- ship
- to
- escape
- famine
- and
- make
- her
- way
- to
- America.
- Her
- daughter,
- Nellie,
- was
- born
- in
- South
- Boston—a
- beautiful
- girl,
- smart
- enough
- to
- graduate
- from
- college
- when
- few
- women,
- let
- alone
- women
- of
- her
- background,
- could.
- But
- her
- glowing
- future
- as
- a
- teacher
- is
- ruined
- when
- she
- becomes
- pregnant—and
- she
- is
- forced
- to
- cope
- on
- her
- own
- as
- the
- baby’s
- father
- disappears
- after
- returning
- to
- Ireland
- to
- fight
- for
- his
- nation’s
- liberation.Her
- subsequent
- rushed
- marriage
- to
- an
- ambitious
- politician
- will
- throw
- Nellie’s
- life
- far
- off
- course—and
- reverberate
- in
- her
- mother’s
- and
- daughter’s
- lives
- as
- well.
- Nothing
- will
- ever
- be
- the
- same
- in
- this
- gripping
- conclusion
- to
- the
- Daughters
- of
- Ireland
- saga—a
- tale
- of
- poverty
- and
- wealth,
- opportunity
- and
- danger,
- and
- family
- and
- forbidden
- love
- set
- against
- the
- tumultuous
- backdrop
- of
- the
- late
- nineteenth-century
- Gilded
- Age.Praise
- for
- Shanty
- Gold,
- the
- first
- in
- the
- Daughters
- of
- Ireland
- trilogy“Charters
- interweaves
- many
- important
- topics—immigration,
- civil
- rights,
- women’s
- rights—into
- her
- exciting
- novel
- .
- .
- .
- An
- evocative
- portrait
- of
- South
- Boston
- .
- .
- .
- Gripping.”
- —Kirkus
- Reviews“The
- story
- of
- a
- young
- Irish
- girl’s
- struggles
- told
- with
- an
- authentic,
- historically
- accurate
- voice.”
- —Sallie
- Bissell,
- author
- of
- the
- Mary
- Crow
- series“A
- wild
- ride
- of
- discovery,
- romance,
- and
- the
- search
- for
- a
- new
- way
- of
- life
- .
- .
- .
- with
- twists
- and
- turns
- along
- the
- way.”
- —Susan
- Blexrud,
- author
- of
- the
- Fang series
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