Young May Moon
By: Sheila Newberry
Publisher: Chivers; Camden
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Bath
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781471324123; 9781471324130
Subjects: Women performers; Fiction; Families; Young women; Social life and customs; Manners and customs
Description: "Just before her sixteenth birthday, Young May Moon fulfils the promise made to her late father and becomes the Punch and Judy lady. She discovers that performing is in her blood, as four years earlier, from this same place, their fiery mother Carmen, a flamenco dancer, absconded with the preacher from the rival entertainment. Befriended by the O'Flaherty family, May is to experience first love and the pain of parting ..."--Publisher description.