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The year is 1972. Nothing ever happens in the middle of nowhere town called Plainfield, but when Freddy Heddy Hardcrumble misses her shift at the rundown bowling alley one night, the whole town is shaken. No one could have imagined the strange place in which Freddy Heddy Hardcrumble found herself when she woke up.

In the mid-19th century, an impoverished orphan flees Ireland and travels alone to America in search of her only family; an estranged, rich uncle. However, when the handsome Master of her uncle's mansion takes a dark interest in the lonely orphan, she becomes trapped in a life of servitude and must again fight for her freedom. Will the orphan fulfill her dreams of a better life in a new country, or will America be worse than Ireland?

This is not a happy story or a romance filled with love. This is the bitter tale of a desolate existence that straddled the threshold between psychosis and evil and then fell over. Within this solemn audiobook rest the final accounts of Birdie Nook.