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A Proper Person to be Detained (Paperback)
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A Proper Person to be Detained (Paperback)
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List price R304
Loot Price R245
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You Save R59 (19%)
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The story of a murder and its aftermath. On Christmas Night in
1881, John Manley, a poor son of Irish immigrants living in the
slums of Leeds, was fatally stabbed in a drunken quarrel. The
frightened murderer went on the run, knowing that capture could see
him hang. A few generations later, author Catherine Czerkawska
begins to tease out the truth behind her great-great-uncle's tragic
death. But she uncovers far more than she bargained for. In a
personal family story that takes us from Ireland to the industrial
heartlands of England and Scotland, from the nineteenth century to
the twentieth, Catherine gives voice to people often maligned by
society and silenced by history - immigrants, women, the working
classes. She unearths a tale of injustice and poverty, hope and
resilience, and she is both angered and touched by what she finds.
Catherine is driven to keep digging, to get to the very heart of
life - and death - in the not-so-distant past.
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