MADDEN:LYN'S ESCAPE p/b (R)

Madden, Lyn

ISBN 10: 1855942070 / ISBN 13: 9781855942073

Published by Cork University Press, 2008

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2007. paperback. Lyn worked as a prostitute. Her career ended the night that she watched, her lover, Cullen throw a firebomb through the window of a house, where former prostitute Dolores lived. She denounced him to the police. Cullen was given a life sentence and an 18-year sentence. He has applied for temporary release, but authorities refused it. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: BT; VFJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 133 x 23. Weight in Grams: 300. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: MADDEN:LYN'S ESCAPE p/b (R)
• Publisher: Cork University Press
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1855942070
• ISBN 13: 9781855942073
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Lyn Madden worked for twenty years as a prostitute, mostly in Dublin. Her career ended the night that she watched, her lover and pimp, John Cullen throw a firebomb through the window of a house, where former prostitute Dolores Lynch lived. Dolores, who had 'escaped' from prostitution some years previously, perished along with her elderly mother and aunt. That murder shocked Lyn out of her dependence on Cullen and enabled her to summon up the courage necessary to denounce him to the police. Cullen was given a life sentence and an 18-year sentence, the second of which he has completed. He has applied for temporary release, but authorities refused it. Here, in Lyn's own voice, she starts her story being escorted by two plain-clothes police officers up the gangplank to the ferry, fleeing Ireland in the hope of a safer future.

It is a wonderful coming-of-age story of a woman who gets a chance later in life to try to put herself on a better course away from the world of crime and exploitation. Though her path is riddled with bad choices and abusive men whose violence is terrifying, her basic spirit is never dimmed. We get to know a Lyn that takes enormous pleasure in the simple things of life while surviving seemingly unbearable abuse and tragedy.

Readers who have read the first book will not be disappointed with the sequel, it's full of excitement and insight into the lives of the walking wounded.