Fiona's Lace - By Patricia Polacco

Fiona's Lace - By Patricia PolaccoAn Irish family stays together with the help of Fionas talent for making one of a kind lace in this heartwarming immigration story from the New York Times bestselling creator of The Keeping Quilt. Many years ago, times were hard in all of Ireland, so when passage to America becomes available, Fiona and her family travel to Chicago. They find work in domestic service to pay back their passage, and at night Fiona turns tangles of thread into a fine,

"From the author of the #1 international bestseller The Orchid House

and in The Táin they are present in full

Kate McDaid thought that going to the reading of her great-great-aunt’s will would be just another non-event in her ordinary life

“stunning…The joys of this book are the joys of any classic work of literature—for that is what this is destined to become—superbly rendered small moments that capture both an individual life and the universality of that person’s experience” (The Washington Post)

giving every piece a unique patina

Main Celtic knot pattern is framed on all sides by a smaller more intricate Celtic weave border

Where the River Shannon Flows

Ireland using the highest quality Irish merino lambswool

Shamrock stud earrings with cz stones in sterling silver

her best friend

some sensational and others sad

Readers will encounter heroes and terrorists