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8th May 2014
03:45pm BST

Star of the Sea's story takes place on a famine ship which sets sails from Ireland and is bound for America. During the journey, we learn about the lives and backgrounds of the various people that have undertaken the voyage and what has led them to where they are.
Although we are introduced to many characters in the pages of the book, our main focus is Mary Duane, a servant to David Merridith Lord Kingscourt, his wife Laura and their children.
Quite early on, a murder is revealed to us along with the murderer, but it takes the course of the novel to understand the motivation of the incident and those that are connected.
While the Star of the Sea is a novel, it is told expertly through documentation and interviews and is presented as though it were historical fact; O'Connor even includes footnotes at the end of each page with references.
There is one point in this book where you will realise you have just not been able to put it down and that last chapter will stay with you for quite a while after the last page.Explore more on these topics: