Jailbird's Daughter

Alan Stoker Esq, Irene Carr

Hodder & Stoughton, Jul 19, 2012 - Fiction - 272 pages

Alison Grant is just five when her father is sent to prison for murder. Taunted at school for being a jailbird's daughter, then abandoned by her mother, she goes to live with her grandmother. She tells her only new friend that her mother is dead and her father is a ship's captain. It is the beginning of a new life of lies and deception, which continues after her grandmother's death. Alison begins to dream of owning a chain of cafés and becoming a lady. But her family's shaming secret will come back to haunt her once more.

About the author

Irene Carr was born and brought up on the river in Monkwearmouth, Sunderland, in the 1930s. As her father and brother worked in the local shipyards and her mother was a barmaid at the beginning of the century she was well acquainted with the setting and times of the world she recreated in her sagas. Irene Carr died in 2006.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Jailbird's Daughter
• Authors: Alan Stoker Esq, Irene Carr
• Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton, 2012
• ISBN: 1444717936, 9781444717938
• Length: 272 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Historical / General; Fiction / Sagas