Home Is Where Your Heart Is
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Roisin is living in a turbulent time. Famine has struck Ireland and her family is still reeling from the death of her father. Times are desperate and when she receives a job offer in Dublin, she accepts. But what she doesn't know is that the family she is working for plan to leave for America, taking her with them. America is new place and is scary for someone who hasn't even seen most of her own country. How will she cope not knowing anyone? Will she ever feel at home? And who will she be drawn to?
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