Center Point Premier Romance (Large Print): Ellis Island (Hardcover)

from kiwifortyniner

i really enjoyed thhis book - thestory of Ellie who goes to America from a poor Irish village, for a year, to save money for an operation for her husband John , whom she loves dearly, to enable him to walk again. He has been seriously injured in the Irish war of iIndependance. Once in America she...

from ellasmeme

This historical novel begins in Ireland and moves to New York in the 1920's as Ellie travels there to work as a domestic servant in order to save money for her IRA husband's much needed surgery. I personally love all things Irish and so enjoyed reading this novel. Well-written with a solid story ...

from tahoegirl

I really enjoyed this book. I would describe it as both a romance and a historical fiction. Ellie marries her childhood sweetheart and ends up with an unhappy life. She goes to America to make money and ends up loving it. I did not know anything about Ireland's civil war and what life was like du...

from yourotherleft

The only child of a devout Catholic father who nonetheless failed the priesthood and a mother so terribly wounded by a community that still judges her for her family's past sins that the family hardly mixes with their neighbors, young Ellie Flaherty's childhood is a drab and loveless affair. It's...

from bookchickdi

Ellie Hogan, the protagonist in Ellis Island is an unforgettable, timeless character. Though set in the 1920s, her struggle between independence and family loyalty, between a modern life in New York and a traditional life back in Ireland, is one that many women today will relate to. Two key scene...