City of Hope, (Paperback)

from jsprenger

This is a touching, memorable book. The heroine, Ellie, is ambitious, determined, and fearless. Although Ellie has her flaws, and readers will question Ellie's lapse in judgment and selfish behavior, this is is a great work of historical fiction. The story begins in Ireland, and when Ellie's husb...

from eesti23

Picked this book up at a book fair and didn't realise it was the second book of a trilogy until I was three-quarters of the way into the book. As a stand alone book I really enjoyed this and openly cried at the beginning and the end. ;)

from bookchickdi

A few years ago I had the pleasure of meeting Kate Kerrigan, the charming Irish author of Ellis Island, a novel about a young Irish woman who came to America to earn money to pay for an operation her husband back in Ireland desperately needed after an injury. Set in the 1920s, Ellie comes to New ...

from brangwinn

Sequel to ELLIS ISLAND. Ellie's fairy tale life from poor Irish subsistence farming to highly successful business woman seems a little unlikely. Her return to America and her successful plan to help the poor during the Great Depression is upbeat, and you know there's going to be another book in t...

from NancyNo5

I won the ARC in exchange for an honest review. Let me first state that I did not read Ellis Island so I had no history of Ellie prior to meeting her in this 2nd installment of a trilogy. The story is written in a straightforward prose with lots of historical background and many believable charac...