Across the Bitter Sea is a compulsively readable novel in the great tradition of the historical saga, set in Ireland.

The heroine is Alice, a passionate woman of peasant ancestry. When a landowner, Samuel, falls in love with her, Alice's mother agrees to the union. She has had to send two of her sons off across the bitter sea to America in search of prosperity, and knows this could also have been Alice's fate.

In the turbulent years that follow, Alice sees the unfolding political events from both sides. She follows the career of a charismatic man of her own class, Morgan Connelly, whom she loves, and ultimately Alice's fortunes and those of her children are inextricably linked to the Irish Movement in this expansive and absorbing novel of ideals and love.

Praise for Across the Bitter Sea:

'A quite remarkable novel... a huge panorama of suffering, frustration and bitterness' - Sunday Times

'This is as important and as fine a novel as has come out of Ireland in many a long year' - Cork Examiner

'A splendid novel... ' - Daily Mirror

Born in Galway in 1920, Eilís Dillon wrote more than forty books, published in several languages including Irish, English, French, Flemish, German, Polish, Czech, Icelandic, Swedish, Hebrew and Italian. Her six novels and many children's books, on a wide variety of subjects, had already won her numerous distinctions and a widespread critical reputation by the time her bestselling historical novel, Across the Bitter Sea, was published in 1974. Acclaimed by the Sunday Times as 'a quite remarkable novel... a novel of which Zola might have felt proud', this was followed by Blood Relations (1977), Wild Geese (1981) and Citizen Burke (1984). In 1982 she published 'Inside Ireland', a personal essay about the country, its people, places and history. Eilís Dillon was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1979.

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