title: The element of fire
author:  Brendan Graham 
description: Widowed by Ireland's Great Famine, Ellen Rua O'Malley flees her native land for Boston and the New World: with her are her two surviving children, Patrick and Mary, and the 'silent girl' whom Ellen has found wandering among the hordes of the dispossessed. In Boston awaits the man who loves her, Lavelle, and the hope and stability which she craves: but is shaking off the Old World, its customs, its language, the answer she believes it to be? Or is she destined to be caught between past and present, between two loves? When a man from her past reappers it seems that her own conflict can only lead to a fall from grace.
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  THE COLOUR OF FIRE
  
  
  A Tom Caine Novel
  
  
  
  
  
  Michael Asher
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  Copyright © Michael Asher 2018
  
  
  
  
  
  The right of Michael Asher to be identified as the author of this work has
  been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents
  Act, 1988.
  
  
  
  
  
  First published in 2018 by Lume Books.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  Table of Contents
  
  
  
  
  
  [Introduction](part0000_split_003.html#_Toc531169326)
  
  
  [1.](part0000_split_004.html#_Toc531169327)
  
  
  [2.](part0000_split_005.html#_Toc531169328)
  
  
  [3.](part0000_split_006.html#_Toc531169329)
  
  
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