The Four Streets: Volume 1

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There is a 2 year time period from the point where we are introduced to Alice's character and when her role in the story really starts. The Independent's Boyd Tonkin was not impressed by her “stodgy meat-and-potatoes prose” of her first offering, The Clematis Tree, but was surprised by its compassion.

Tommy may have craved peace but, with seven kids and a wife as opinionated and as popular as Maura, it was just a dream. She spent part of her childhood living on a farm with her grandmother, and attended school in a small remote village in the west of Ireland. This amount includes seller specified domestic postage charges as well as applicable international postage, dispatch, and other fees. On almost every window in every house hung a set of net curtains, each with a lace pattern different from any other window in the street.On Christmas morning Kitty Doherty gives birth to her baby - who is immediately taken away for adoption in America.

Remember, the journey through a book series is not just about reaching the end but also about the memories created along the way. Although they had a brood of children, they continued to breed, and were passionate, loving and caring neighbours to everyone in the streets.A heartbreaking book about poverty stricken living in Liverpool for an Irish-Catholic immigrant family where family meant everything to them. Heartbreaking, gripping, life-affirming, this story, based on Nadine's own childhood background, is set in the Catholic community of 1950s Liverpool, where young men and women, fleeing the poverty of rural Ireland, have come to seek a better life. It was a hard time during thT period, I liked the fact that she added the 'ghost' to the story, hopefully I will read the next part. Here the values of rural Irish communities, where whole families can live for a week on a pan of boiled nettles and a hen's foot, are transposed into mean streets of two-up, two-downs with an outhouse in the yard and Granada TV on the sideboard.