This is the country
By: William Wall
Edition: Large print ed.
Publisher: Ulverscroft
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Leicester
Language: eng
Number of pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9781847821010
Subjects: Children of single parents; Fiction; Teenage parents; Fatherhood; Alienation (Social psychology)
Description: In an Ireland far removed from the familiar images of travel brochures, a bright teenager is heading for trouble: the son of a single mother who has given up, rarely at school, taking drugs, and hovering on the fringes of the city's criminal underworld. When he falls for Pat The Baker's sister his life changes irrevocably, not least because when she gets pregnant, Pat breaks his legs. But as he tries to make a new start and adjust to being a lover and father, he realises he cannot evade vengeance forever.
Notes: Originally published: London: Sceptre, 2005.