Father Figures
Marguerite Alexander, 1 September 1983
The Far Side of the Lough: Stories from an Irish Childhood
by Polly Devlin and Ian Newsham.
Gollancz, 118 pp., £5.50, June 1983,0 575 03244 8 Show More
by Polly Devlin and Ian Newsham.
Gollancz, 118 pp., £5.50, June 1983,
“... sense of humour. All of us There is the fruit of a spiritual journey of another kind – back to Polly Devlin’s Northern Irish Catholic childhood in search of meaning and continuity. She describes the faces looking out at her from old family photograph albums, her own and those of her five sisters and brother: ‘a look of bruised innocence, of ... ”