Before she was a Mammy, before she had Chisellers, and before they made her a Granny, Agnes Browne was Agnes Reddin, a young girlor a Young Wan growing up in the Jarro in Dublin.Brendan OCarroll takes readers back to the heart of workingclass Dublin, this time in the 1940s. Together with her soon to be lifelong best friend Marion Delany, young Agnes manages to survive the indignities and demands of Catholic school, the unwanted births of siblings, days spent in the factories and markets, and nights in the dance hall as rockandroll invades Dublin.But on the eve of her wedding night, the Jarro is alive with gossipwill Agnes be turned away at the altar? For the whole parish knows Agness notsowellkept secret. And with a mother falling further into dementia, and a younger sister turning to a life of crime, its up to Agnes alone to keep her splintering family together, while trying to create one of her own.Filled with OCarrolls trademark wicked wit and loving, largerthanlife characters, The Young Wan shows the hardscrabble beginnings of the ultimate Irish mother and family.

Binding: Paperback;226 pages; Publisher: Penguin Random House LLC; Classification: ; Weight: 386.71 g; Dimensions: 201

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