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enlarge cover Oonagh by Mary Tilberg Novel ISBN: 978-1-897151-18-1 5.5" x 8.5" Trade Paper with French Flaps $21 / 224 pages BISAC Codes FIC 019000 Fiction/Literary FIC 014000 Fiction/Historical

Oonagh by Mary Tilberg In 1833, eighteen-year-old Oonagh Corcoran immigrates to Upper Canada from southern Ireland to start a life far from the depravity and injustices faced in her once prosperous homeland. She believes she has entered paradise in the deep folds of cool, green forest off the vast inland sea of Lake Ontario; however, she finds that the New World harbours its own horrible injustices when she meets Chauncey Taylor, a fugitive slave from Virginia. With a quick temper and wilful attitude, Oonagh is an independent and outspoken woman. In Chauncey, she finds a soulmate of an equally outspoken and stubborn nature. As they grow closer, Chauncey slowly reveals his terrible past to Oonagh, reliving the pain and tragedy he and his family suffered as slaves.Making a new life for himself in Canada, Chauncey finds a community that accepts him as a fellow human being. But as love forms between them, they find that even in such a small, accepting community, there are certain lines that can never be crossed. In this sweeping first novel, Mary Tilberg elevates the reader in the glories of love and the beauty of nature, and plunges us into the deepest corners of despair, revealing the terrible abuse wrought at the hands of men. About Mary Tilberg.