Rosita Sweeman’s Fathers Come First is a coming-of-age classic set against a Dublin-city backdrop. Elizabeth is both gauche and perspicacious, walking the edge of her stereotypes while hobbled by the pressures of acceptance – social, physical and sexual. In a world informed by a Catholic upbringing, she wonders whether her indiscretions belong in the letterbox or the confession box. Curious, unflinching and disarmingly honest, teenager turned twenty-something Lizzie speaks to the changes and continuities in Irish society across forty years. It is a novel as relevant today as when it was first published.
- ISBN10 1843516349
- ISBN13 9781843516347
- Publish Date 22 January 2015
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country IE
- Imprint The Lilliput Press Ltd
- Format Paperback
- Pages 168
- Language English