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The

Unremembered

Mike Smears

KEY SELLING POINTS
A harrowing and emotional story, set in Liverpool in the nineteenth century, of a young Irish refugee as she
enters the unwelcoming and mercenary English society.
Focuses on immigration from the perspective of the immigrant.
A passionate but humorous story set against the background of a mixed, multi-racial society, still relevant
today.

Mairead Kelly, only seventeen, barefoot, starving and alone, flees the unimaginable horror of the Irish Famine,
only to find disease and desperate squalor in nineteenth century industrial Liverpool.

Against all odds, and amid a multitude of setbacks, she rises above the poverty and death, marries, and
achieves a brief troubled happiness. But what is the dark tragic secret she is harbouring?

Mairead’s struggle to access education for her children backfires when her literate daughter embarks on a
romance with the charming son of a despised, rich, English family. Are the English so uncaring after all?

As the tensions rise and the two families clash will Mairead’s tragic secret finally be revealed?

Mike Smears was born in 1947 and grew up in a poor area of Liverpool. He graduated in English Literature
from Kent University in 1969, and subsequently worked at the University in Southampton, where he now lives.
He is married with four children and (so far) eight grandchildren. The Unremembered is Mike’s debut novel with
Troubador Publishing.

Publication Date: 28th April 2024 £9.99 ISBN: 9781805143406
Thema subject category: FV – Historical fiction
paperback 198 x 129 mm 320 pp Portrait Author location: Southampton

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