This book is fiction.
The story that inspired it was not.
In 1990, a box of very old documents was found on a small farm in the west of Ireland.
They had been stored for well over a hundred years and told an incredible story of suffering, of love and of courage.
In 1846, a young couple met during the worst days of the Great Irish Famine.
The Killing Snows is a way to imagine what led to their meeting and what followed from it.
Silverwood Books The killing snows: the defining novel of the great irish famine, paperback/charles egan
