Mary Makebelieve lives with her mother in a single room in Dublin. Her mother scrubs other people’s floors and spins dreams of a lost family fortune, while Mary wanders the city and catches the eye of a huge, self-satisfied policeman. Also published as The Charwoman’s Daughter, the story first ran in The Irish Review in 1911.
A tender, funny Irish fairy tale of poverty and growing up by the author of The Crock of Gold. Download the free EPUB.