Finding Tipperary Mary [sound recording] : the search for my mother
Whitsell, Phyllis2016
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Phyllis was adopted aged 4. Despite being told that her parents had died of TB, she always believed that her mother was alive and, once old enough, was determined to track her down. While Phyllis was growing up in Birmingham, training as a nurse, getting married and starting her own family, her mother Bridget, known locally as Tipperary Mary, a trouble maker with alcohol problems and a tendency to cause mayhem, was living in Balsall Heath, which was then a red light district of Birmingham. So when Phyllis, after a long struggle, finally caught up with Bridget, she had to shield her own family from the problems this would cause. Hiding behind her district nurse's uniform, Phyllis, with no authority to do so, simply added Bridget to her daily district rounds; bathing her, taking her clean clothes, tending the wounds from her dysfunctional life and offering her what love she could.
Main title:
Finding Tipperary Mary [sound recording] : the search for my mother / Phyllis Whitsell.
Author:
Whitsell, Phyllis, authorFreeman, Penelope, narrator
Imprint:
Long Preston : Magna Story Sound, 2016.
Collation:
6 CDs (6 hr.) : digital, stereo
Performers:
Read by Penelope Freeman.
ISBN:
9781785023163 (CDs :)
Local class:
B/WHIT
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2217403