The Young Wan

The Young Wan
by Brendan O'Carroll

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Author: Brendan O'Carroll
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2004-01-27
ISBN: 0452284848
Number of pages: 224
Publisher: Plume

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Summary: 5 Stars

I had previously read all the Agnes Browne series and this book was just as entertaining and humorous. I was just so excited to learn that Brendan O'Carroll had written this book on the family's earlier life. Many of my friends are reading the whole series now and say they are the best books they have ever read! The Young Wan certainly lived up to my expectations after having read the previous three and I'd recommend it to anyone who has a good sense of humour.Everyone I know who reads the books say "I feel sad to think I've finished them as the family came to life in the books and I really felt I knew each one of them!"

Kay Paine

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Summary of The Young Wan

Before she was a Mammy, before she had Chisellers, and before they made her a Granny, Agnes Browne was Agnes Reddin, a young girl-or a Young Wan- growing up in the Jarro in Dublin.

Brendan O'Carroll takes readers back to the heart of working-class 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 rock-and-roll invades Dublin.

But on the eve of her wedding night, the Jarro is alive with gossip-will Agnes be turned away at the altar? For the whole parish knows Agnes's not-so-well-kept secret. And with a mother falling further into dementia, and a younger sister turning to a life of crime, it's up to Agnes alone to keep her splintering family together, while trying to create one of her own.

Filled with O'Carroll's trademark wicked wit and loving, larger-than-life characters, The Young Wan shows the hardscrabble beginnings of the ultimate Irish mother and family.

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