30 years ago, Marita Conlon McKenna's groundbreaking children’s novel, Under the Hawthorn Tree, was published - RTÉ Arena revisits the book in the company of the author. Listen above...
The novel, set in famine-era Ireland, focuses on three children who journey across Ireland to find their two great-aunts, having lost both of their parents. Published by O'Brien Press, the book became an enormous bestseller, and remains Ireland's best-selling children's book.
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