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 | 9780860682912 |
Genre | Fiction |
Publication Date | 21-Jun-90 |
Publisher | Virago Press |
Format | Trade Paperback |
No. of Pages | 224 |
Language | English |
Rating | NotRated |
Subject | Fiction / General; Mothers And Daughters; Single Mothers |
BookID | 13024 |