Author(s): Peter Behrens

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Walk outside. That is what you do in dreams. The law of dreams is, keep moving. It is 1846 and Ireland is dying of hunger. Among the dead, Fergus's family-still warm in their beds when the landlord orders their home torched and destroyed. And so Fergus begins his journey. It will take him from his mountain to the teeming streets of Dublin and Liverpool, through workhouse, dosshouse, brothel and railway shanty town; through love and need; ultimately, to the other side of the world.