Letters from a Patchwork Quilt

"A story of love, loss and tragedy; a heartbreaking and moving tale." Readers' Favorite.

From the author of A Greater World and Kurinji Flowers

In 1875 a young man, Jack Brennan, from a large and impoverished Catholic family, refuses to be pushed into the priesthood and runs away to become a teacher.

Jack falls in love with Eliza Hewlett, but his dreams and plans are thwarted when his landlord's daughter, Mary Ellen MacBride, falsely accuses him of fathering the child she is expecting.

Rather t...