The Letter Home

The heartwrenching historical novel of a mother's journey from Ireland to save the daughter she loves

By: Rachael English

Narrated by: Melanie McHugh

A rich, heartbreaking novel, moving between west of Ireland and Boston, of a mother's love, a baby girl, a courageous voyage, and a forgotten story that binds two families separated by an ocean...

She had left behind everything she loved to forge a future for the one she treasured most...

2019 Dublin. When Jessie Daly loses her job, her flat and her relationship, she travels home to Ireland's west coast and helps an old friend researching what happened in the area during the 1840s Famine. They are drawn into the remarkable story of a brave young mother called Bridget Moloney, and Jessie becomes determined to find out what happened to Bridget and her daughter, Norah.

On the other side of the Atlantic, Kaitlin Wilson is researching her family tree. She knows her ancestors left Ireland for Boston in the 19th century. Everything else is a mystery. Kaitlin unearths a fascinating story, but her research forces her to confront uncomfortable truths about herself and her family and also uncover a heartbreaking connection to a young woman in the west of Ireland...

(P) 2022 Headline Publishing Group Ltd©2022 Rachael English

decades of immigration.

The author was subtly comparing the decades of immigration stories to make the reader? Acknowledge that people have the right to come to another country without papers because their circumstances were so dire that they had to come to another country for more dire circumstances or for wealthier countries to support them.

The Letter Home

Authors political agenda? My favorite genre is historical (multigenerational) fiction. I like bouncing back & forth to different years & people. But this book just doesn’t flow. Especially the last several chapters. The story goes totally off track to a new plot line before it returns to the main story. While it’s interesting in places, it’s completely depressing through out. I kept thinking it would get better. The epilogue doesn’t even make sense. Now I’ve got to stay up and cleanse my mind of 2 centuries of uncertainty & sadness with something else for a while. Wish I would have stopped when I felt like I wanted to.