That’s How It Was by Maureen Duffy

That’s How It Was

Maureen Duffy

I was just a girl and life offered only things I despised: houses, children, security, housework. I had to pass. I had to. I had to be different.’

Paddy is illegitimate, the daughter of another Paddy — an active member of the IRA who abandons her English mother, Louey, at her birth. This is the story of that mother — frail, but with an indomitable spirit — of that daughter — and of their life together, seen through the clear eyes of Paddy as a child and adolescent. The working class life of wartime England is wonderfully evoked and the subtle changing relationship between Paddy and Louey is movingly conveyed.


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Details

ISBN 860682919
Genre Fiction
Publication Date 21-Jun-90
Publisher Virago Press
Format Trade Paperback
No. of Pages 224
Notes copyright 1962
Language English
Rating NotRated
BookID 13023

Author: LFWBooks