A Family Cursed

by ElaineCrowley (Author)

• Used

  Mass Market Paperback
  2000

  $4.18

  When ruthless Michael McCarthy evicts the Cronins, tenants in the estate that isto become his son's, old Mag Cronin calls down the power of darkness on Michael and his descendants. At first the curse is laughed off but in the next generation the McCarthys suffer a terrible toll of lives lost and blighted. Onlyhandsome young Michael, his father's pride and joy, seems to lead a charmed life, prospering as a barrister in Dublin with his wife and daughters. Then slowly the workings of the curse are felt in a further generation. Molly, his first and favourite daughter, follows her foolishly trusting heart and marries a brutal soldier. Beautiful and gifted Francoise turns to a harsh, unrewarding career. Nell, born to be a wife and mother, loses her chance of happiness in thecruellest way possible. When a fourth child, Rory, is born unexpectedly, it is his fate to carry the curse into another generation - or to break it.

• Used

  Hardcover
  1996

  $3.25

  As a wedding present, Mary and Peter are given Mag Cronin's farm, causing the old woman to be evicted and sent to the workhouse. Mag curses the family and as disaster befalls them, they begin to believe in the curse, but all curses can be broken eventually.