Dorries, Nadine, 1957-,

The Ballymara road / Nadine Dorries. - 367 pages ; 20 cm. - The Four Streets saga ; 3. . - Dorries, Nadine, 1957-. Four Streets saga ; 3. .

On Christmas morning 1963. Fifteen-year-old Kitty Doherty gives birth in a hostile Irish convent. Kitty knows her beautiful baby boy presents a huge danger to her family's Catholic community back in Liverpool's Four Streets. When her baby is adopted by a wealthy family in Chicago, Kitty considers the problem solved. But soon it's obvious the baby is very sick and only his birth mother can save him. In Liverpool, things have begun to settle down. A charismatic new priest has arrived. The Dohertys are coping with the tragic consequences of Kitty's pregnancy, and the police seem close to solving the double murder which rocked the Four Streets to the core. But now all that is about to be put as risk once again.

9781788547413 (paperback)


Adopted children--Fiction.
Sick children--Fiction.
Intercountry adoption--Fiction.
Nineteen fifties--Fiction.
Families--England--Liverpool--Fiction.


Liverpool (England)--Social conditions--20th century--Fiction.
Liverpool (England)--History--20th century--Fiction.


Domestic fiction.
Historical fiction.

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