Earl Grey's Daughters

Through painstaking research, Jon pieces together key moments in her life, tracking her from Fortal, the tiny village where she lived with her parents and many brothers and sisters; to the workhouse where her starving family, brought to their knees by the Great Famine, was forced to shelter somewhere between 1847 and 1849. In all likelihood, it is here that Eliza's parents and her brother Jim gasped their last.