Tales from Portlaw Volume Eight - The Life and Times of Joe Walsh

ISBN-13: 9781326017200 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 138 str.

William Forde

Opis

The Life and times of Joe Walsh is Volume Eight in my Tales from Portlaw series. It is a story of failed relationships, broken promises, unfaithful marriages, lesbianism, betrayal, murder and revenge. Joe Walsh is an only child whose father rejects her at birth. Her mother always dreamed of becoming a writer but her husband forbade such. Joes mother is abandoned by a cruel husband and decides to escape her unhappy marriage in Ireland and begins life anew in England as an unmarried mother in the 1950s.Mother and young child come to Liverpool where they face discrimination as foreigners and being a single parent. Over the years, Joes mother re-establishes herself, goes through a bogus church blessing to be identified as a married woman and pursues her long held dreams of becoming a writer.Estranged from her parents, Joes mother finds true happiness once again in the arms of a friends husband, before setting up house and home in Haworth, West Yorkshire.