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Scotland, 1849. The ODonnell girls are driven from their Wicklow home by starvation and an Anglo-Irish landlord. After losing their father, the three sail to Glasgow with thousands of others in search of a new start.
Determined not to give up, the two older sisters - Maeve and Kathleen - find back-breaking work in Templetons carpet factory, while the youngest, 9-year-old Finola, is enrolled in a new Catholic school.
After meeting the wealthy Patrick Reilly and his wife, the three receive a promise for a better and more prosperous life. But in tumultuous and dangerous mid-19th-century Scotland, they will need to give it their all to survive and reach their goals.
A story of survival, social history and second chances, Mary Edwards Gallowgate is a fictitious, yet informative look at young Irish immigrants life in 1850s Glasgow, Scotland.
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