The House By Princes Park

Inside the convent, the nun peered at the paper. Her eyes were old, but she could still see… “Ruby O’Hagan” she read. Well, at least the child had a name, even if the poor wee mite had nothing else.

The product of an affair between a nurse and an injured American soldier during the Great War, Ruby O’Hagan’s early life is in a convent orphanage. At sixteen she runs away with a farmworker and two years later she is alone and homeless with two daughters. Her friend, Mrs Hart, leaves her …