Strawberry fields
By: Katie Flynn
Publisher: Arrow Books
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 528
ISBN-13: 9780099559627; 9780099416036
Subjects: Man-woman relationships; Salvation Army; Institutional care; Fiction; Irish fiction; Secrecy; Friendship; Children
Description: Liverpool: Christmas Day 1924. When twelve-year-old Sara Cordwainer, the unloved child of rich and fashionable parents, sees a ragged girl with a baby in her arms outside her church, she stops to talk to her, pressing her collection money into the girl's icy hand. But from this generous act comes a tragedy which will haunt her for years. When, years later, Sara meets Brogan, a young Irishman working in England, she feels she has found a friend at last. But Brogan has a secret which he dare tell no one, not even Sara. And in a Dublin slum, Brogan's little sister Polly is growing up. The only girl in a family of boys, she knows herself to be much loved, but it is not until Sara begins to work at the Salvation Army children's home, Strawberry Fields, that the two girls meet - and Brogan's secret is told at last ...