That's How It Was by Maureen Duffy
I was just a girl and life offered only things I despised: houses, children, security, housework. I had to pass. I had to. I had to be different.' Paddy is illegitimate, the daughter of another Paddy -- an active member of the IRA who abandons her English mother, Louey, at her birth. This is the story of that mother -- frail, but with an indomitable spirit -- of that daughter -- and of their life together, seen through the clear eyes of Paddy as a child and adolescent. The working class life of wartime England is wonderfully evoked and the subtle changing relationship between Paddy and Louey is movingly conveyed.
She 'creates the world of her childhood and adolescence so that one can feel, smell, and taste it Doris Lessing Maureen Duffy is one of the few British writers of fiction of real class Financial Times An experienced, prolific novelist; nothing she writes can fail Daily Telegraph
A prolific, confessedly compulsive poet and playright, Maureen Duffy, born in Sussex in 1933, published her first novel, That's How It Was, in 1962. Since then she has written many novels including Love Child, Gor Saga, Londoners and most recently, Illuminations, (1991) and Occam's Razor (1993).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780860682912 |
| ISBN 10 | 0860682919 |
| Title | That's How It Was |
| Author | Maureen Duffy |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Year published | 1990-06-21 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
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