The Empress of Ireland
Subtitle: A Chronicle of an Unusual Friendship
Publisher: Ulverscroft Large Print
Published: January 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 488
ISBN-13: 9780753199848
Subjects: Biography: general; Literary; Personal Memoirs; Biography / Autobiography
First sentence: "Fucking old queen!" MID-MORNING in the Turk's Head, in London's Belgravia, the quiet hour before the arrival of the lunchtime clientele, when only the idle and the alcoholic are about, and the smell of polish and air-freshener briefly dominates the fug of stale beer and stubbed cigarettes.