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Title: A Prodigal Return

Subtitle: Irish Family Saga Series, Book 5

Author: Jean Reinhardt

Narrator: Michael Healy

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 6 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-24-17

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

It's the 1880s, and James and Mary McGrother's family has been divided by emigration, like many of their neighbors in the village of Blackrock in county Louth. The couple who survived the Great Hunger have had to watch more than half their family leave the parish.

The responsibility to care for one another extends beyond blood or marriage ties for the McGrother family in New York, when a young Irishman goes missing in America. Back in Ireland, at a time when James and Mary least expect it, a family member returns - but not everyone is pleased with the reunion.

Members Reviews:

Such a good series about a family filled with despair, need and most of all love during the famine in Ireland.

I have enjoyed reading this series of Jean Reinhardt's books and I am currently reading book number six.

The stories are all centered around one family which grows over the years, and during the hardest times in Ireland.

The stories show love, determination and support from the family through several generations with some of the last generations

moving to America.

Interesting

I've quite enjoyed this series of books. I've read them one right after the other from 1-5. Unfortunately for me 6 isn't available yet, but as soon as it is I'll be reading it. All the characters are real and likeable. Their trials and tribulations of life in Ireland during the famine and the things that people did to survive, the children growing up and marrying, having children of their own, leaving their beloved Ireland for America in hopes of a better life to find that they're not so welcome and treated as second class citizens living in squalor are a lot of the Irish immigrants, but they're going to better conditions because of the work that Thomas is qualified to do, which saves his sister and brother in-law when they emigrate to America. I am going to look forward to reading the next chapter of this saga.

the entire series is wonderful. each book continues with the past but builds ...

the entire series is wonderful. each book continues with the past but builds new stories into it . Best part is is that it is based on real family history. brings to life times and issues we often forget. Wonderful job. you will want to read all the book she has written and will wait with anticipation for the next book in the series and other things she writes. a sure hit

Too chopped up

I read the previous books in this saga and enjoy the story but...this book and one of the previous ones is way too short. This could easily be a two book series and would be easier to read in that format. As it is, I have to remember who each character is and how he/she relates to others.

Let the Saga continue.... Please!

I gave five stars for the entire 5 book series. I read the first three a year or so back and when I learned the other two were available I had to have them. I couldn't pick up where I left off, I started at book one anew, and read them all, back to back. I couldn't tell you how many historical novels I have read but I can tell you this ranks right up there with Leon Uris' Trinity. Jean is an excellent story teller, I loved having to use the dictionary for some of the Irish words. Having lived in County Donegal gave me a leg up on visualizing places and scenes presented. This is the "Celtic at Heart" persons must read.