Minding Children

Minding Children

by WilliamWall (Author)

Synopsis

Irish teenager Josephine works as a childminder, but what the families who hire her do not know is that her own childhood, with a drunken single mother and various unsavoury boyfriends, has left a terrible legacy. As she moves from job to job, she leaves a trail of disturbing family destruction.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 200
Publisher: Sceptre
Published: 15 Feb 2001

ISBN 10: 0340751886
ISBN 13: 9780340751886

Media Reviews
MINDING CHILDREN: 'Beautifully written ...Wall brilliantly, relentlessly, reveals how our natural senses of superiority ensure that we can be completely taken in by the simple, good face worn by genuine evil.' - Dina Rabinovitch, Independent

I enjoyed MINDING CHILDREN enormously, he is such a writer - lyrical and cruel and bold and with metaphors to die for - Kate Atkinson

[A] haunting, compelling novel...Wall has succeeded in producing a rare thing: a page-turning work of literary fiction. - Sue Leonard, Books Ireland

An even more gripping read [than Alice Falling]...a storyteller of great power and compassion. - Image Magazine

Wall's portrait of Josephine is utterly convincing...this is an intimate tale, well told, that draws the reader into a world both familiar and frightening. - Derek Hand, The Irish Times

A deeply affecting and sympathetic portrait of a disturbed young woman - Anne-Marie Flanagan, Irish World

A triumphant creation ... I was absolutely persuaded by the lyrical precision of Wall's prose - Anthony Glavin (publisher of New Island Books), Tr

A beautifully choreographed danse macabre of Catholic guilt and implosive rage - Graham Caveney, Express
Author Bio
William Wall is an award winning poet and short story writer, and the author of several works of fiction for children, whose first adult novel, ALICE FALLING, was published by Sceptre in 2000. His work has appeared in The Irish Times, New Irish Writing and has been broadcast on radio on RTE. He is married with two children and lives in Co. Cork, Ireland.