Publisher's Synopsis
This edition follows the text of the 1873 reissue of the novel, set in Ireland during the famine years of 1845-7. Trollope concentrates on the lives of the labouring Irish poor, both before and during the famine, as the Fitzgeralds fight to survive a threat to possession of their family home.;Mary Hamer is also author of "Writing by Numbers - Trollope's Serial Fiction".
