Agnes Hall
The Canvas Bag
'You'd think that he had everything, a lovely wife, four lovely children, a big house and a successful business. I don't know what's wrong with the man that he can't be happy.' Some fifty years after the potato famine, Ireland is still a country where a large percentage of the population exists in poverty. Mikey vows that he will do everything in his power to ensure that his life will not echo the poverty of that of his parents. Liverpool is his target and it is to there that he escapes and makes his home. His ambition and determination enables him to create a successful life for himself. But happiness is something that Mikey is unable to maintain and, despite achieving so much, he still manages to create pain and misery for many of those around him.
The following books are currently 'work in progress'
Raspberry Summer
The freedom to roam without parental restrictions was one of the many things which always made the the two girls enjoy the long summer holiday that they spent every year with their aunt. The sky always appeared to be blue and the sun always appeared to shine and the girls in their cotton floral dresses and constant exposure to the sun, turned the colour of pale toast. But the summer of 1956 was the year that changed everything.
The Conchy
What is it that makes a parent dislike his child?
A relationship which should be one of loving and caring, instead is one of strife, until the relationship always fragile, totally disintegrates.
'The Conchy' is the story of a boy's relationship with his father, how the boy as he becomes a man, slowly rebuilds his confidence and developes a belief in his own worth.