O’Toole
O'Toole by Florence D'Angelo ticks all of the literary boxes for engrossing historical fiction with immersive settings, exceptional character development, and a plot that continues to drive forward at a comfortable pace.
Set in mid-1800s Manhattan, Finnegan O'Toole, a former pickpocket of the Dead Rabbits gang, becomes a longshoreman at his father's urging.
His life takes a new direction as he befriends fellow dockworkers...
- Jamie Michele for Readers' Favorite
A story of the quest for independence and freedom: a story of America.
Five Points NYC mid-19th Century
Finnegan O'Toole. Born into the squalor of Hell's Kitchen he becomes one with it. It takes a war and a railroad...and a son...to wrench him away. Johanna. Immigrant. Determined to rise from within the quagmire of poverty, she will face a paralyzing decision: which of the two men who love her will she follow?
Words From The Author….
Everything and everyone has a story waiting to be revealed. As an author, I have the privilege to bring that story to life, to empower people and places born in my imagination, or resurrected to be portrayed fictitiously, to encapsulate timeless themes in a unique way.
More often, it is the action of the common individual who tweaks an everyday situation and unknowingly changes the course of history. My intent is to portray people such as these, so that my readers realize the impact their lives have on the world.
A common person myself, I was raised on a tiny island in the Bronx, and became a teacher, wife, mother, grandmother, friend, avid researcher, and author. I am an ordinary person who loves God, children, plants and animals, and building things.
But I believe that I am capable of extraordinary deeds...just by being ordinary.
