Tangled Web UK: New Audio - Autobiography Titles
2002
Evelyn Doyle
Nothing Green
Published August 2003 by Orion Audio at £9.99
ISBN: 0-75286 000 3
Read by Evelyn Doyle After Evelyn’s father succeeds in releasing his children from the care of the State Industrial schools, Evelyn returns home to Dublin to the same grinding poverty. And when Desmond is forced to return to England to find work, `new mammy’ Jessie increasingly takes out her frustration on the twelve-year-old Evelyn.
After a gruelling winter, the family eventually leaves for England in search of a better life. But matters quickly deteriorate. Jessie’s relationship with Desmond becomes strained and Evelyn increasingly finds herself at the brunt of their criticism and dissatisfaction.
Part memoir, part social history, Evelyn’s remarkable journey takes us through her adolescence as an assistant in Woolworths in the swinging sixties, as a weaver in a mill in Yorkshire and her repeated attempts to run away. Throughout everything Evelyn’s inexplicably troubled relationship with Jessie looms large, casting a shadow over her life, until the story’s brilliant and striking denouement.
2 Cassettes Running Time: 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
Nothing Green
