a story of hope during The Great Hunger (An Gorta Mor, 1845-1850)
In the 1840s, as the potato famine spreads throughout Ireland, thirteen-year-old Nora finds solace in the family's large wooden cupboard where she fantasizes of cakes and other good things, and, when her father decides that they should set sail for America, the old cupboard helps make her dreams come true.
