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MARITA CONLON-McKENNA is one of Ireland’s most popular children’s authors. She has written many bestselling children’s books.
Under the Hawthorn Tree
, her first novel, became an immediate bestseller and has been described as ‘the biggest success story in children’s historical fiction.’ It has been reprinted numerous times since its first publication in 1990, and has reached a worldwide market through translations and foreign editions. Its sequels,
Wildflower Girl
and
Fields of Home
, which complete the CHILDREN OF THE FAMINE trilogy, have also been hugely successful. Marita’s other children’s novels have also received wide critical acclaim.

DONALD TESKEY drew the chapter-head illustrations. His paintings have been exhibited to great acclaim in Europe and North America.

Other Books by
MARITA CONLON-McKENNA

Under the Hawthorn Tree

Wildflower Girl

The Blue Horse

No Goodbye

Safe Harbour

In Deep Dark Wood

A Girl Called Blue

The
Children of the Famine
Trilogy

UNDER THE HAWTHORN TREE

Ireland in the 1840s is devastated by famine. When tragedy strikes their family, Eily, Michael and Peggy are left to fend for themselves. Starving and in danger of being sent to the workhouse, they escape. Their only hope is to find the great-aunts they have heard about in their mother’s stories. With tremendous courage, they set out on a journey that will test every reserve of strength, love and loyalty they possess.

WILDFLOWER GIRL

When she was only seven, Peggy made a terrifying journey, with her sister Eily and brother Michael, through famine-torn Ireland. Now she sets out on another dangerous and frightening journey – to America. Crossing the Atlantic takes six long, uncomfortable weeks. What will Peggy find when she gets to the New World? And will she ever see her homeland and her beloved sister and brother again?  

Copyright

This eBook edition first published 2013 by The O’Brien Press Ltd,
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First published in hardback in 1996 by The O’Brien Press Ltd.
First paperback edition 1997.
Reprinted 1998, 1999 (twice), 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004,
2005, 2007 (twice), 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013.

eBook ISBN: 978-1-84717-602-8

Copyright for text © Marita Conlon-McKenna
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Internal illustrations: Donald Teskey
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