Black baby : a novel / by Clare Boylan

Boylan, Clare
Black baby : a novel / by Clare Boylan. -- London : Penguin Books, 1988

Boyle leads a quiet, dreary existence until a young black woman mysteriously drifts into her life. She dubs this woman Dinah, after the child she had "purchased" from nuns when she, too, was a young woman. Never mind that Dinah is a fraud. She brings color and gaiety to the repressed spinster, whose only solace has been a cat and the annual Christmas visit from her two nephews and their greedy wives. Boylan has skillfully captured the atmosphere of Dublin and its ordinary citizens who love to drink and spin dreams and con their friends and neighbors.
ISBN: 9780140117110

1. IRISH LITERATURE; 2. FRIENDSHIP -- FICTION; 3. BLACKS -- FICTION; 4. DUBLIN (IRELAND) -- FICTION; 5. JUVENILE LITERATURE; 6. HUMOUR

(1) Inv.: S10133 S.T.: J HUMOUR BOY