Green Years

One of A. J. Cronin's best-loved novels, The Green Years is a compassionate story of a boy's growth to manhood, set against the harsh reality of life at the turn of the century.Robert Shannon is a young Irish Catholic boy who, orphaned at the age of seven, is brought to live with his mother's estranged family in Scotland.As he grows up in a dour Presbyterian town, only Robert's great-grandfather -...