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""She died on Christmas Eve of a broken heart."" This book of historical fiction begins with Maggie, a young Irish girl, who moves to England with her family. It tells of the joys and tragedies in her life as she grows to womanhood. Her son George becomes an orphan and a lonely ""home child"" who endures many challenges and some happiness in his life journey. This intriguing, epic tale spans over one hundred years from 1874. It relates the history of Ireland, England and Canada in turbulent times, including the Irish troubles, harsh Victorian times, home children, homesteading, deaths, the Spanish flu, the dirty thirties and two World Wars. Was George's life shaped by nature or nurture? How did it affect future generations?

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Rosalie Jones Knogler lives in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada with her husband. She enjoys travelling, quilting, hiking, horseback riding, boating and singing. Her children's photo rhyming books, My Little Owl and Robins and Friends, and her young-adult book, The Bear in the Bush, each received Greater Victoria Public Library author awards. (Books available at knogler@shaw.ca.)Many of her short stories, poems and photographs have been published in newspapers, magazines and literary journals. Inspired Magazine featured an interview with her. This is Rosalie's first book of historical fiction. She is working on another book, about an intriguing French ancestor from the 1600s, as well as a novel.

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