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constantreader471 's review for:
My Heart Went Walking
by Sally Hanan
3.5 stars rounded up to 4 stars for a work of literary fiction that takes place in early 1980s rural Ireland. The book opens with Una Gallagher telling her mother that she is pregnant. Una is 16 and unmarried--still a source of shame in Donegal, Ireland. Her mother decides that she must give the baby up for adoption. Una flees to Dublin because she wants to keep the baby. How she manages to find help in Dublin from an unlikely source and keep her baby is a heartwarming story.
She eventually manages to reconnect with her family and the father after the first attempt goes awry, when she sees her younger sister and her boyfriend together. Her seeing the two of them a few moments after she gets gets off the bus from Dublin seemed a bit contrived when I read it, but it does work well with the rest of the story.
The author provides a glossary of Irish terms and English equivalents which is helpful if you are not from Ireland.
One quote: Ellie, Una's sister: "Sometimes I feel like I'm just watching us happen, like I'm an actor in a movie and all this loved and stuff is part of someone else's life."
Thanks to Sally Hanan and Fire Drinkers Publishing for sending me this eARC through NetGalley.
#Irishfiction #NetGalley
She eventually manages to reconnect with her family and the father after the first attempt goes awry, when she sees her younger sister and her boyfriend together. Her seeing the two of them a few moments after she gets gets off the bus from Dublin seemed a bit contrived when I read it, but it does work well with the rest of the story.
The author provides a glossary of Irish terms and English equivalents which is helpful if you are not from Ireland.
One quote: Ellie, Una's sister: "Sometimes I feel like I'm just watching us happen, like I'm an actor in a movie and all this loved and stuff is part of someone else's life."
Thanks to Sally Hanan and Fire Drinkers Publishing for sending me this eARC through NetGalley.
#Irishfiction #NetGalley