About HUNGRY FOR LIFE (THE MCLAUGHLIN CHRONICLES Book 1) by Viv Young:
The uplifting story of one Irish family’s struggle to survive when the potato crop failed in 1846. Faced with starvation, farmer Joseph McLaughlin takes the heart-breaking decision to divide his family, and send his two young daughters to America. With heavy hearts, Kit and Maeve leave their home in Ballygall, refugees seeking a safe haven in the promised land. After a nightmare journey, Kit soon begins to make a new life for herself in Boston. But Maeve is waylaid in England where she discovers a very different world to the one her father and her brother, Eugene, are living in Ireland. Starvation has torn them apart: Can Ireland reunite them?
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Author Bio:
I’ve worked with words all my life whether in advertising, journalism, PR and more recently, novels and screenplays. After taking a Masters in Screenwriting in London about ten years ago, I have been fortunate to have been working virtually non-stop on various screen projects. And I love it! But I have also found time to write the first book in the McLaughlin Chronicles, Hungry for Life, which begins with the 1846 potato famine that decimated crops and lives in Ireland, and prompted one of the greatest migrations of its time. It’s a subject that has fascinated me for many years, and this shameful time in history also has many brighter moments, so I felt a novel was the best way to get this across and working with characters in depth for a novel can be very satisfying particularly after the ‘condensing’ writers have to employ in screenplays. I have a wonderful family that supports and encourages me and bolsters my naturally optimistic nature if it occasionally begins to flag! All this, and I am also fortunate to be a reviewer for the New York Journal of Books, so have the opportunity to read and consider a wide range of titles before they hit the shelves. What a wonderful life I’ve been blessed with! I now live in Sussex, less than an hour from London where I grew up, and we spend several months of the year in the US.