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Reviews of Hungry Hill Click on excerpts to read the full review
"Carole O'Malley Gaunt's heartbreaking memoir opens a window on Springfield's Irish community"
Valley AdvocateNovember 2007
"Memoir of a survivor."
Irish Voice July 2007
"Gaunt’s poignant story is ... a family history deftly, candidly told."
Booklist Review May 2007
"the author... provides an achingly honest picture of a teenager hungrily seeking at school the approval she does not receive at home."
Kirkus ReviewsMay 2007
"Gaunt has written a poignant, heart wrenching memoir."
Publisher's WeeklyMay 2007
"a social document, a story of a family, a document on the human heart."
Daily Hampshire GazetteMay 2007
"... besides Gaunt's skillful wielding of language and narrative structure, is a sense of this Irish-Catholic teenager as a survivor who pushes back against the terrible tide of loss to seek her footing in the wider world. "
The Boston GlobeJune 2007
"Hungry Hill Takes Center Stage in Memoir"
The RepublicanJune 2007