Island of Orphans: A Novel

From #1 bestselling author Genevieve Graham comes an adventurous and heartrending novel about a young woman’s promise to look after two orphaned children aboard an Irish famine ship quarantined in 1847 Quebec, and her heroic efforts to honour that promise when they are separated.

In the spring of 1847, seventeen-year-old Alice Sullivan boards a famine ship with her parents and seven siblings, fleeing a starving Ireland. By the time they reach the quarantine station at Grosse Île, Quebec, onl...