The outstanding novel from the Carnegie Medal-winning, former Laureate na nÓg Sarah Crossan; thought-provoking and incredibly moving, it explores love and family during The Great Hunger

Ireland, 1846 Nell is working as a scullery maid in the kitchen of the Big House. Once she loved school and books and dreaming. But there's not much choice of work when the land grows food that rots in the earth. Now she is scrubbing, peeling, washing, sweeping for Sir Philip Wicken, the man who owns her home...

'Highly original, deeply moving, simultaneously delicate yet hard hitting' Claire Kilroy

'Brilliant, provocative, and darkly funny' Sarah Dunn

'Unique, refreshing and revelatory ... Reads the zeitgeist perfectly' Helen Cullen

'Intriguing, fresh, and satisfyingly complex; it makes you think, and it makes you feel' Lesley Glaister

A provocative, tender and darkly funny novel that explores the painful truths of modern-day connection, and all the complicated and unexpected forms that love can tak...