Tangled Web UK: New Audio - Autobiography Titles
2002
Evelyn Doyle
Evelyn
Published April 2002 by Orion Audio at £9.99
ISBN: 0-75285 611 1
Read by Evelyn Doyle Ireland 1953. Desmond Doyle, a painter and decorator, is married with six children and living in the infamous Fatima Mansions in Dublin. When his wife deserts him, Desmond’s world falls apart and he is advised to put his children in the care of State Industrial schools as a temporary measure while he goes to England to find work. Upon his return, he discovers, to his horror, that his children have been consigned to state care until they reach the age of sixteen.
Over the next year, Desmond and his solicitors wage a groundbreaking and highly publicised court battle against the Irish legal system to overturn the Children’s Act of 1941 and bring the children home.
Told through the eyes of Evelyn, Desmond’s nine-year-old daughter, this is the heartrending true story of one man’s battle to change the law and reunite the family he loves.
2 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 3 hrs
Abridged by Katrin Williams
Produced by Nicholas Jones About The Author Evelyn Doyle lives in Scotland with her partner, Michael. She trained as a psychiatric nurse, then became a police officer and later moved on to run her own company. She has one son, Benjamin, and a grandson, Joshua.
Evelyn Doyle
Evelyn
