Author: Clare Boylan
Year: 1983
Jacket design and illustration: Fred Marcellino
Publisher: Summit Books
Edition: First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671467500

Comments:
Who removed the holy pictures from that wall, and why? Fred’s illustration, with an economy of means, finds a way to suggest that they were no longer relevant. The novel is about two Irish girls from the 1920s, and their struggle to break away from their restrictive upbringing.