Black wreath
Subtitle: the stolen life of James Lovett
By: Peter Sirr
Publisher: The O'Brien Press; O'Brien Press, Limited, The
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Dublin
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781847177124; 9781847175601
Subjects: Juvenile fiction; LITERARY CRITICISM; American; General
Description: A fictionalised account of the life of James Lovett, son of Lord Dunmain, set in 1730s Dublin and colonial America. Dublin. A city in flux, its population swelling, a place of great wealth and grinding poverty, a playground for the rich but also a violent and dangerous city. Here James Lovett, thirteen year old son of Lord Dunmain and heir to several titles and grand estates, finds himself homeless and dispossessed on the streets. His boorish, drunken father must conceal his son's existence to collect a large inheritance. He announces James''s death and even stages a funeral in the city's ca.
Table of contents: title: Cover; Title Page; Dedication; Contents; One: A Ghost in the Cellar; Two: A Decision; Three: A Hurried Departure; Four: A New Home; Five: A Terrible Discovery; Six: The Faction Fighter; Seven: College Life; Eight: A Funeral and a Fight; Nine: The Pursuit; Ten: A Strange Meeting; Eleven: Dunmain's Man; Twelve: The Darcy Gang; Thirteen: In Red Molly's; Fourteen: A Robbery Planned; Fifteen: The Blooding of James; Sixteen: 'One of us'; Seventeen: A Visit to Newgate; Eighteen: The Trial; Nineteen: A Meeting; Twenty: Respite; Twenty-One: A Visitor; Twenty-Two: A Family Matter.; title: Twenty-Three: A House Near the CityTwenty-Four: The Crossing; Twenty-Five: New Horizons; Twenty-Six: Indelible Affection; Twenty-Seven: Flight; Twenty-Eight: 'We have to bring him back'; Twenty-Nine: Taste of Freedom; Thirty: Lost Property; Thirty-One: An Encounter; Thirty-Two: A Lantern in the Woods; Thirty-Three: Reunion; Thirty-Four: Epilogue; Author's Note; About the Author; Copyright.