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Evelyn: A True Story
Ian Rankin
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Description for Evelyn: A True Story
paperback. Clean copy in good to very good condition.
Desmond Doyle, 29, a painter and decorator, is married with six children and living in the infamous Fatima Mansions in Dublin in 1953. One day he comes home to find his wife has left him. He decides to go to England to find work and is advised to put his children into the state Industrial Schools system for a short time until he returns. When he returns he is told, to his horror, that the children have been consigned to the state until they are 16. This is the story of how Desmond Doyle fought the Irish legal system to ... Read more
Desmond Doyle, 29, a painter and decorator, is married with six children and living in the infamous Fatima Mansions in Dublin in 1953. One day he comes home to find his wife has left him. He decides to go to England to find work and is advised to put his children into the state Industrial Schools system for a short time until he returns. When he returns he is told, to his horror, that the children have been consigned to the state until they are 16. This is the story of how Desmond Doyle fought the Irish legal system to ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1900
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780752842868
SKU
KLJ0002701
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Ian Rankin
Evelyn Doyle now lives in Scotland with her partner of 14 years Michael. She trained as a psychiatric nurse, then became a police officer and later moved on to running her own patisserie company. She has one, Benjamin, and grandson, Joshua.
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