Author - Virginia Rafferty
Novelist Virginia Rafferty developed a love of the past at an early age. In school, she learned about battles, presidents, wars, and explorers. Always, she wondered about the people who lived through tumultuous times. How did they feel? What were their lives like? The immigrant experience fascinated her. Although she taught middle school science in New England, her ancestors did not come to America aboard the Mayflower. They arrived from Hungary and Slovakia and worked in the Pennsylvania coal mines and the factories of Bridgeport, Connecticut. Their struggles inspired Rafferty’s first two books, Family Secrets ... Hidden in the Shadows of Time and The Road to Lattimer published by Sunbury Press. Readers and reviewers praised both. "Why aren't there more novels like this one?" asked Pennsylvania author PJ Piccirillo after reading Lattimer. Her novel-in-progress, The House on Peace Street, tackles even bigger issues: millwork, the fight by women to vote, the horrors of war, and the 1918 influenza pandemic. In 2007 Rafferty moved to Aiken, S.C., where she joined the South Carolina Writers Association and the Aiken Writers' Bloc. She is a fiction editor for the Northern Appalachia Review.
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Virginia Rafferty
The House on Peace Street3 reviews$19.95The Great War erupts in Europe. A devastating p...The Great War erupts in Europe. A devastating pandemic kills millions worldwide. Children are working in mines and factories, and women are testing boundaries. An explosion in a Pennsylvania coal m... -
Virginia Rafferty
The Road to Lattimer1 review$16.95Four couples—Stefan and Anna, Cyril and Adriana...Four couples—Stefan and Anna, Cyril and Adriana, Jan and Katarina, and Emil and Edita—fled their European homes, desperate to escape the poverty, war and tyranny of kings and emperors. Seeking a be...