Download or read book The Rat-Pit written by Patrick MacGill and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-06-13 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This absorbing work tells the tragic story of a Donegal girl named Norah Ryan. Righteous and intelligent Norah left her homeland after her father's death, desiring a better life across the water. Unable to get out of the cycle of poverty, Norah's fate is drastically affected when she becomes pregnant by Alec Morrison, the son of the farmer on whose land she lived and worked in awful conditions. Set in Ireland and Scotland in the early 1900s and based on actual events, 'The Rat-Pit' follows her struggles against poverty.