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Description
This sparkling memoir is a remarkable personal account of the emigrant lives of one Irish couple amongst the hundreds upon thousands forced to emigrate in the 1950s.
The book centres on Lily O’Connor’s married life with Paddy in Dublin, Luton and Geelong, and at its heart is the story of a man who always wanted too much and a woman whose resilience saw her coping courageously, often on her own, with a large family and difficult circumstances. This is a resonant tale of one woman’s life in three countries with a man torn between the contentment of family life and the pursuit of ambition and adventure as a single man.
Despite the hard life it evokes with the impact and immediacy of Frank McCourt, Dreams of Hope tells the funny, upbeat story of a feisty, indomitable woman and is full of memorable incident. |
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Author
Lily O’Connor was born in Dublin’s inner city tenements and on her marriage emigrated with her husband to Luton in England, and later to Geelong in Australia. Her first book, Can Lily O’Shea Come Out to Play? was published in 2000 and reprinted in 2001. She lives in Victoria, Australia.
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