The Famished Land
Byrd, Elizabeth
When all else was gone, their love meant more than survival.  --  A memorable novel of Ireland in the 1840s when the flower-soft days of ballyfearna became a hunger-ridden nightmare at blight turned the blossoming potato fields to vile, black decay...and young Moira Mcflaherty must cope with family, fever, passions, jealousies, threats of eviction and the roving eye of the man she loves...