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Description for Wednesday's Child
Paperback. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
"Wednesday's Child" is the story of one year in the life of an Irish child protection worker. Shane Dunphy was involved in social care for fifteen years. This book is a distilling of the cases he encountered in that time to make a single, year-long narrative. Apart from that compression, and some necessary changes of identifying details, everything in the book is true. And what a truth he reveals! Here are the cases of three dysfunctional familes, struggling at the margins of a society that barely acknowledges the existence of such people. This is a portrait of fatalistic despair, of ... Read more
"Wednesday's Child" is the story of one year in the life of an Irish child protection worker. Shane Dunphy was involved in social care for fifteen years. This book is a distilling of the cases he encountered in that time to make a single, year-long narrative. Apart from that compression, and some necessary changes of identifying details, everything in the book is true. And what a truth he reveals! Here are the cases of three dysfunctional familes, struggling at the margins of a society that barely acknowledges the existence of such people. This is a portrait of fatalistic despair, of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Gill & Macmillan Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
207
Place of Publication
Dublin, Ireland
ISBN
9780717140060
SKU
KRA0012947
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About S.A. Dunphy
Shane Dunphy was born and brought up in Wexford, where he now lives. After working as a Child Protection Worker in several other countries, he now teaches on childcare courses in Waterford City. Wednesday's Child is his first book.
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