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Fiona's Story Irene Ivison

Fiona's Story By Irene Ivison

Fiona's Story by Irene Ivison


$15.49
Condition - Very Good
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Summary

Found dead in a car park in Doncaster, Fiona, the author's daughter had slipped through the social net and ended up in the hands of pimps and drug-dealers. Her mother now hopes to promote public awareness and question how society views and takes responsibility for young prostitutes.

Fiona's Story Summary

Fiona's Story: A Tragedy of Our Times by Irene Ivison

As Irene Ivison read this in a newspaper at home in Sheffield she instinctively knew it was her child Fiona. Despite her desperate and insistent attempts to bring her daughter home - calling in social workers and police to help - the young teenager slipped through the net that her safe middle-class upbringing offered her, and ended up in the hands of pimps and drug-dealers. Her daughter's brutal death was the pitiful end of the promising life of an impressionable but high-spirited teenager who was determined to live her own life. But it was a beginning of sorts too. Just as Cathy Comes Home prompted a public reaction in the sixties, here a mother tells Fiona's Story in the hope that others will hear and respond to the urgent issues her death highlights: how, in allowing children their rights we also compromise parents' power to protect and, the urgent need for society to take responsiblity for young prostitutes.

Fiona's Story Reviews

What dominates FIONA'S STORY is the author's raw grief, ironically the most persuasive weapon, perhaps to further her cause. Parts of the book are intensely moving... Irene Ivison is humble enough to admite her shortcomings, brave enough to detail her pain. * THE TIMES *

Additional information

GOR001275607
9781860491993
1860491995
Fiona's Story: A Tragedy of Our Times by Irene Ivison
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Little, Brown Book Group
1997-05-01
288
N/A
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This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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