4 Novels by Marita Conlon-McKenna
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Overview: Born in Dublin in 1956 and brought up in Goatstown, Marita went to school at the Convent of the Sacred Heart, Mount Anville, later working in the family business, the bank, and a travel agency. She has four children with her husband James, and they live in the Stillorgan area of Dublin.
Marita was always fascinated by the Famine period in Irish history and read everything available on the subject. When she heard a radio report of an unmarked children’s grave from the Famine period being found under a hawthorn tree, she decided to write her first book, Under the Hawthorn Tree.
Published in May 1990, the book was an immediate success and become a classic. It has been translated into over a dozen languages, including Arabic, Bahasa, French, Dutch, German, Swedish, Italian, Japanese and Irish.
Marita has won several awards, including the International Reading Association Award, the Osterreichischer Kinder und Jugendbuchpreis, the Reading Association of Ireland Award and the Bisto Book of the Year Award.
Genre: Fiction > YA, Contemporary
A Girl Called Blue
The orphanage is the only home Blue has ever known. She is desperate to find out who she really is. The closed file in stern Sister Regina’s office holds the secret of her identity. And that is forbidden territory …
No Goodbye
It’s hard to pretend that everything is normal when your whole life has been turned upside down … Four children come to terms with their mother’s sudden departure.
The Blue Horse
Katie’s whole world is turned upside down when her family’s home is destroyed by fire. Everything they had is gone, and instead of pulling together it seems as though her family is falling apart.
Safe Harbour
Sophie and Hugh are left homeless when their house is bombed during the London Blitz. Their mother is seriously injured and their Dad is away fighting, so the children are sent to their grandfather in Ireland. Sophie is scared – they have never met grandfather but his letters cause such trouble in the house, and their Dad never speaks of him.
How will they live in a strange country, with a man who probably hates them – and will the family ever be together again?
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