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Burren Strong: The Indenture Years
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Series: Burren Strong, Book 2
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Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 476
Weight: 1.39
Height: 1.06 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A sweeping historical novel insprired by a family story-drawn from letters, ship records, asylum registers, and generations of Lahiff family testimony-telling the rarely heard story of two Irish sisters sent half a world away.
Book Two in the Burren Strong series, continuing the story of the Lahiff family-can be read as a standalone.
In 1884, Bridget and Catherine Lahiff leave the limestone hills of County Clare and cross the ocean to South Australia under an assisted immigration scheme that promises opportunity-but delivers harsh realities.
Young, capable, and fiercely bound to one another, the sisters enter a world of indentured service, rigid class divisions, and the quiet dangers faced by immigrant women whose lives were rarely recorded.
As Bridget's path leads through domestic service, love, and devastating loss-and Catherine's through sacrifice, endurance, and moral reckoning-their bond is tested by distance, secrecy, and the limits of what women were allowed to choose for themselves.
From crowded ship holds and immigrant depots to railway towns, convents, and asylums, The Indenture Years follows their diverging roads with tenderness and unflinching honesty.
Carefully researched, this novel blends documented history and family testimony with immersive storytelling to honor the courage of women whose stories survived only in fragile ink and whispered memory.
Burren Strong: The Indenture Years is a tribute to endurance, sisterhood, faith, and the quiet strength of those who carried home within them-no matter how far they were sent.
Perfect for readers of historical fiction, Irish family sagas, and faith-driven stories of resilience.
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