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Monday, January 28, 2013

Free Irish Novel available on Amazon.com

This is NOT a printed version, but one you can download on your smart phone, tablet (android OR Ipad) OR you could read it on the Amazon Cloud reader (when you are online).   Act quickly, these offers can be withdrawn and this looks like a good read.


Spirited Away – A Novel of the Stolen Irish
by Maggie Plummer
Rating: 4.3 Stars
Genre: Historical Fiction
Price: $0.00 Save $11.95
Subject to change back to full price at any time.

 

It's May 1653. When young Frederica (Freddy) O'Brennan and her sister Aileen trust a stranger on an empty beach in western Ireland, they inadvertently place themselves in the crosshairs of Cromwell's notorious Reign of Terror. Freddy awakens in the crammed hold of a slave ship bound for Barbados. She and Aileen endure the gruesome voyage only to be wrenched apart when purchased at auction by sugar plantation owners from different islands.

Freddy is left alone to face the brutal realities of life as a female Irish slave on a seventeenth century Barbados plantation. As she struggles to survive the ordeal, Freddy's harrowing experiences paint an intimate, compelling portrait of 1650s Irish and African slavery in the Caribbean.

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 jay

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