My mother wore a yellow dress : Christina McKenna. an Irish childhood in the 1960s /
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TextPublisher: Glasgow : Neil Wilson, c2004Description: ix, 245 p. ; 24 cmISBN: 1903238765 (pbk.)Subject(s): McKenna, Christina, 1957- -- Childhood and youth | Mothers and daughters -- Northern Ireland -- Biography | Northern Ireland -- BiographyDDC classification: 941.6’0823’092 | B LOC classification: CT808.M36 | A3 2004Summary: 'I learned about conflict from my parents.' So begins Christina McKenna's haunting memoir of her lonely early life. Recounting scenes from her chlldhood in Ulster, she paints a memorable and poignant picture of violence and oppression with her brutal father and protective mother, whose retaliation to her husband's meanness came in the form of a secret yellow dress. At age eleven, she experiences a frightening supernatural occurrence, a prolonged haunting that confirms for her the reality of the spirit world. Though it affects her deeply, she later learns to channel her confusion into twin
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'I learned about conflict from my parents.' So begins Christina McKenna's haunting memoir of her lonely early life. Recounting scenes from her chlldhood in Ulster, she paints a memorable and poignant picture of violence and oppression with her brutal father and protective mother, whose retaliation to her husband's meanness came in the form of a secret yellow dress. At age eleven, she experiences a frightening supernatural occurrence, a prolonged haunting that confirms for her the reality of the spirit world. Though it affects her deeply, she later learns to channel her confusion into twin
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