Away by Jane Urquhart - 1993

Ester O'Malley Robertson gazes out at Lake Ontario from her home for perhaps the last time. This house, highly charged with memories and history, is part of a landscape this is now being swallowed by industry. The story of her family's past has its beginnings in the 1840's off the northern coast of Ireland where a young woman embraced a semi-conscious sailor, who had washed in with the tide, and, later with her husband and young son, fled the famine for Canada, eventually settling in Ontario