The Rag Boiler's Daughter

Winner: IP Picks 2011 Best Creative Non-Fiction. A sweeping account of Irish and Scottish families,The Rag Boiler's Daughterportrays one woman's resolve to provide her children with a brighter future. This story follows Maggie Gilliland from her birth in Denny, Scotland in 1865 and spans the factories of 19th Century Scotland, the Irish War of Independence, two world wars and a family's migration to Australia.