This is the most recent book i finished reading and when i first saw it lying in the shelf of new fiction in the Library, it caught my eye. The cover said a lot more than other books ever did. It was a yellow two storey house standing at the slope of a green mountain whose under a yellow sky. There were flowers hanging from window sills but the house looked a little ragged. Maintenance was low but there was smoke rising from the high chimeny which indicated it was still inhibited. This yellow painted house carried a mystery i wanted to find out and i brought the book home.
Author, Patricia Falvey was born in North Ireland and raised in Ireland and England and migrated to USA at age of twenty. She has enriched this historic novel with detailed information of the period early twentieth century and brings to life an inspiring story of a woman who fights for her dream of reuniting her family under their own historic Yellow house. The other supporting characters are equally strong, cultivating an adventurous plot mixed with love, hate, anger and forgiveness.
For me, this story was one of a kind. It was a woman's courage to go beyond her childhood ghosts and faith to fulfill the dream she carried on behalf of her Da. The strange ways of her getting in to and out of troubles with different sections of society, getting lost in between the thin line of right and wrong, trying to preserve her own heritage and mesmerizing courage shown on her own battles of parenthood and emotional attachments she developes in her life validates the scenes that flows in the story. Out of pure rage her destiny allows her to take strange turns she never anticipates and her love's deception leaves her more hurt and contaminated than she could handle on her own. And this Irish warrior fights for the lives of her siblings and bring back the scattered family together finally. And finds her own true love in a place she never dreams of.
Any reader would agree that this woman is more earthly than most heroines that are found in other novels making this a unique and lively experience of Ireland's revolution during the early twentieth century.
