Norah Ryan grows up on Dooey Head in Donegal, picking bog-bine and going to school, until poverty sends her with the potato squads to Scotland. Seduced and abandoned, she drifts down to the Rat-Pit, a Glasgow lodging-house where any woman can get a bunk for a few pence.
A fierce, compassionate novel by the navvy poet, a companion to his Children of the Dead End. Download the free EPUB.