'I was just a girl and life offered only things I despised: houses, children, security, housework. I had to pass. I had to. I had to be different.' Paddy is illegitimate, the daughter of another Paddy -- an active member of the IRA who abandons her English mother, Louey, at her birth. This is the story of that mother -- frail, but with an indomitable spirit -- of that daughter -- and of their life together, seen through the clear eyes of Paddy as a child and adolescent. The working class life of wartime England is wonderfully evoked and the subtle changing relationship between Paddy and Louey is movingly conveyed.
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Hardback Editions
1962 : Hardback
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Paperback Editions
1999 : Paperback
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October 1992 : Paperback
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June 1990 : Paperback
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1983 : Paperback
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Other Editions
1984 : Unknown
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July 1969 : Unknown
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1966 : Unknown
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1962 : Unknown
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