A daughter's journey
By: by Lyn Andrews
Edition: Large print ed.
Publisher: Magna Large Print
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Long Preston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 430
ISBN-13: 9780750531573
Subjects: Social life and customs; Irish fiction; Family secrets; Manners and customs; Fiction; Parent and child; Fashion designers
Description: Angela O'Rourke is six when her parents hand her over to an aunt and uncle in a distant village. It's a common practice for large, hard-up families in 1950s Ireland, but for Angela it means that her mother and father don't love her any more. Still, she's well cared for till she's sixteen, when her uncle starts to take too much of an interest in her. Moving to Liverpool in the early 1960s, she becomes a success in the world of fashion design. The pain of a disastrous love affair sends her home to Ireland just after the death of her aunt: and there, among old papers, Angela makes an astonishing discovery. As she learns the truth about the past, a brighter new future beckons.
Notes: Originally published: London: Headline, 2008.