The only life Dove McKenna has ever known has been one of the open road. Living with her parents and her brother in a show wagon, travelling from town to town, performing for folk happy enough to pay them for their entertainment, whilst dismissing them as 'gippos' and 'thieves' behind their backs. But it is not until after their mother's death that they settle in one place long enough for Dove to really feel her difference. The McKennas set up camp on a patch of barren land just outside Leeds and Dove and Henry finally get the chance to go to school. And though at St Joseph's they encounter prejudice from pupils, teachers and parents, they find friendships too. Dove begins to dream of acceptance and perhaps even a better home life. For when sober their father is an amiable enough soul, but when drunk he can be a monster. And Malachy McKenna is drunk more often than not...
- ISBN10 0749906189
- ISBN13 9780749906184
- Publish Date 28 November 2002
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 1 April 2006
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
- Imprint Piatkus Books
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 416
- Language English