024133120X 
Paperback A swift pure cry / Siobhan Dowd.
Publication year: 2018
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books
Resource type: Physical
ISBN: 024133120X 9780241331200 (pbk.) :
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Originally published: London: David Fickling Books, 2006.
Life has been hard for Shell since the death of her mam. Her dad has given up work and turned his back on reality, leaving Shell to care for her brother and sister. When she can, she spends time with her best friend Bridie and the charming, persuasive Declan, sharing cigarettes and irreverent jokes. Reissued in Penguin's ORIGINALS series of iconic teen fiction. After Shell's mother dies, her obsessively religious father descends into alcoholic mourning and Shell is left to care for her younger brother and sister. Her only release from the harshness of everyday life comes from her budding spiritual friendship with a naive young priest, and most importantly, her developing relationship with childhood friend, Declan, charming, eloquent and persuasive. But when Declan suddenly leaves Ireland to seek his fortune in America, Shell finds herself pregnant and the centre of a scandal that rocks the small community in which she lives, with repercussions across the whole country. The lives of
Series title: The originals
Description:
341 pages ; 20 cm.
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