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 change the law and win back his family. Told through the eyes of Evelyn, Desmond's nine-year-old daughter, this is a heartrending true story beautifully told.
- ISBN10 0752842862
- ISBN13 9780752842868
- Publish Date 6 March 2003 (first published 12 August 2002)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 20 August 2004
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Orion Publishing Co
- Imprint Orion mass market paperback
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback (A-Format (178x111 mm))
- Pages 240
- Language English