Forty Seven Roses. A Memoir

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2001
Edition: Reprint

Description: 207 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: In 47 Roses, Peter Sheridan tells the moving and sometimes shocking story of "the other woman" in his parents' lives. Upon his father's sudden death in Dublin, Sheridan finds out about his father's almost fifty-year relationship with Doris, an Englishwoman who was both less and far more than a mistress. Sheridan elegantly describes his search for the truth in the face of resistance from his mother, who falls fatally ill. He eventually meets Doris and learns that she never married, living only for her brief meetings with Sheridan's father. This beautifully written portrait of a marriage forces us, like Sheridan himself, to face truths of the heart that refuse to conform to the easy verities of convention.

ISBN: 9780333905081