Black Baby
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Black Baby
By (Author) Clare Boylan
Little, Brown Book Group
Abacus
3rd December 1998
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Fiction
823.914
Physical Properties
Paperback
224
Width 126mm, Height 198mm, Spine 14mm
275g
Description
As a child Alice had paid the nuns half a crown to adopt a black baby from the mission in Africa - a baby that never appeared. Now a loveless spinster of sixty-seven, still yearning for a daughter, Alice's life is one of dull predictability, unbroken by the ritual visit from her middle-aged relatives.
Then one evening Dinah storms into her home. Bawdy, busty and black, enigmatic friend to the wayward and eccentric, Dinah is about to take on Dublin and transform Alice's life - creating a world of unlimited love and miraculous possibilities...Reviews
'Sexual generosity triumphs over terrified frigidity, warmth dries out cold, renewal stamps out decay... This is a novelist who alters one's ways of seeing' SUNDAY TIMES 'Splendidly original and richly comic... the writing is a joy' IRISH TIMES 'The book I have read with the greatest pleasure, amusement and deep sympathy' Molly Keane, SUNDAY TIMES 'Humorous and inventive... it spills over with affections for strangeness and wayward warmth' THE TIMES
Author Bio
"Clare Boylan was the author of five novels and three volumes of short stories. Her last novel, ROOM FOR A SINGLE LADY, was published by Little, Brown in September 1997.
