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Twenty year-old Sharon Rabbitte is raped in a nightclub parking lot and discovers she's pregnant, but she was so blind drunk when the rape occurred that she can't remember who the man was.
Does this sound funny to you? No? Me neither, but the blurbs on the back say it is- "...another winning comedy about family life in north Dublin." And "Mr. Doyle has an astonishing talent for turning the humdrum into high comedy...Even the family dog rings true." Okay, the family dog gets left out ...more
I had a hard time getting into this one in which the plot and humorous aspects were minimal. Set in Ireland it deals with a family's reaction to the unplanned pregnancy of the twenty year old daughter. It is also obvious that this was written some twenty odd years ago as these days a pregnant mother drinking would be frowned upon.
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Mar 23, 2015
Vesra (When She Reads)
marked it as to-read
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Jan 08, 2021
J
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Curlysue
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