‘The American flags on the roof seemed miles and miles away in the blue, blue sky. I looked along the street, and the building seemed to go on forever.’
Ireland, 1911 – young sisters Sally and Bridget are leaving their home in the Irish countryside, and everything they know, to seek out a new life far away in New York.
On their journey across the sea, they meet a young orphaned girl, Julia, who is travelling alone in the hope of staying with her long-absent brother. Life in the City of Dreams is more difficult for the three young friends than they ever could have imagined. But despite the challenges, the girls begin to find their way in this strange new place. With friendship they can face anything – together.
‘No matter how far you are from home, having a warm hand to hold makes everything a small bit better.’
Award-winning, best-selling, and one of Ireland’s most loved children’s writers, this is Judi Curtin’s 30th book, and this time, she looks to her own family for inspiration as she tells the story of two sisters who emigrate to America from rural Ireland in 1911. Like Sally, Judi’s grandmother Mary Anne left Ireland for New York in the early 1900s.
Judi Curtin is one of Ireland’s favourite children’s writers. She is the best-selling author of the Alice and Megan and Eva series, Time After Time, Stand By Me, You’ve Got A Friend and the Lily at Lissadell series. Judi won an Irish Book Award for Stand By Me, and she was shortlisted for an Irish Book Award for both Lily at Lissadell and Lily’s Dream. Her books have been published in German, Portuguese, Spanish, Finnish, Swedish, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Welsh, Czech and Turkish, and in Australia and New Zealand. Judi grew up in Cork and lives in Limerick.
