Book description
Glasgow is a city teeming with immigrants, rich and poor, schemers and
victims alike. And the McKennas, fresh from Ireland, have no intention
of being victims. When Nolan McKenna and his sisters arrived unannounced
on Cissie Cassidy's doorstep claiming to be her late husband's long-lost
relatives, the lonely widow is all too willing to be taken in and
trusting enough to help them find them a foothold in the city. While
Nolan wields a shovel for twelve back-breaking hours a day, the
beautiful, trusting Clare takes up with the wrong man instead of the
collection agent who yearns to make her his bride. Sharp-witted and
pretty, Evie is made of more ambitious stuff and uses her job behind the
bar of the Harp of Erin to attract the attentions of Russell Blackstock,
builder and land-speculator, who owns half the tenements on Clydeside -
and plans to own still more. The worlds of the wealthy Blackstocks and
the penniless McKennas are set on a collision course that will mean huge
changes for them, and for the city they live in.
