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Where Are You Really From?: A Story of Race, Family and Politics
Tim Brannigan
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Description for Where Are You Really From?: A Story of Race, Family and Politics
Paperback. A fascinating and powerful memoir about growing up black in the Falls road area of Belfast during the Troubles in the 1970s and 80s, and a moving tribute to the mother who risked everything to keep her son. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: BM; VFV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 141 x 12. Weight in Grams: 290.
Reminiscent of a storyline from Call the Midwife, Peggy Brannigan - part of a devout Catholic family - was devastated when she became pregnant as a result of an extra-marital affair with a black junior doctor. Unwilling to have an abortion or to have the baby adopted, Peggy came up with an audacious plan to keep her child. When Tim was born, hospital staff smuggled him into St Joseph's Baby Home and told the rest of the Brannigan family that the baby had been stillborn. One year later, Peggy adopted Tim and brought him to live with her family in ... Read more
Reminiscent of a storyline from Call the Midwife, Peggy Brannigan - part of a devout Catholic family - was devastated when she became pregnant as a result of an extra-marital affair with a black junior doctor. Unwilling to have an abortion or to have the baby adopted, Peggy came up with an audacious plan to keep her child. When Tim was born, hospital staff smuggled him into St Joseph's Baby Home and told the rest of the Brannigan family that the baby had been stillborn. One year later, Peggy adopted Tim and brought him to live with her family in ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Blackstaff Press Ltd
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780856408533
SKU
V9780856408533
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About Tim Brannigan
Tim Brannigan was born in Belfast in 1966. He spent the first year of his life in St Joseph's Baby Home, before being adopted by his birth mother. He studied politics at Liverpool Polytechnic and returned to Belfast in 1990 where he began training for a career in the media. He went on to become an award-winning journalist, working as ... Read more
Reviews for Where Are You Really From?: A Story of Race, Family and Politics
one of the defining memoirs of the late Troubles
Sunday Times
an amazing story of secrets and sacrifice
Sunday Mirror
an enthralling read
The Times
The remarkable story of a life founded on lies but saved by a mother's love
Daily Mirror
Sunday Times
an amazing story of secrets and sacrifice
Sunday Mirror
an enthralling read
The Times
The remarkable story of a life founded on lies but saved by a mother's love
Daily Mirror