Description Lia was child with a great capacity for love. In the closeknit society of postwar Dublin she was an oddity - an only daughter in a street of overcrowded families, and alternatively spoilt and neglected by her beautiful, frivolous mother and stepfather.
Tadek, a young jewish boy, tried to comfort the lonely little girl, and Lia fell in love. Destined to be a great doctor, he and his polish family knew prejudice and gruelling poverty in Ireland and leter terrible prosecution in Austria. Lia never forgot Tadek - through school with the nuns in Phoenix Park, and as a budding actress at the Abbey Theatre she never stopped loving him...
The remarkable first autobiographical novel, from the author of Cassa.
"A lovely, sad, funny and bawdy story. I didn't want it to end." Elaine Crowley
Author Lilian Roberts Finlay, while raising a family of ten, wrote stories for women’s magazines; the children reared, she wrote her first autobiographical novel, Always in My Mind, which was first published in 1988, and a sequel, Forever in the Past(1993).
Her collection of short stories, A Bona Fide Husband, was published in 1990 and her second novel, Stella in 1992. Her third novel, Cassa, was published by Mount Eagle in 1998. She now lives in Dunsany, County Meath.
"A romantic family saga related with elegant craft." RTÉ Guide
"Lilian Roberts Finlay has neatly married the faded gentility of 1950s Dublin with the brasher money conscious years of the '70s and '80s . . . An absorbing view." IE Book Review
A story of friendship, betrayal and romance, a wonderful sequel to the bestselling Cassa, this engrossing tale explores its conflicts of love and loyalty in settings that range from the beautiful countryside on the banks of the Shannon to Dublin, Peru and Paris.
