Girl in the Making

SHORTLISTED FOR THE JOHN MCGAHERN BOOK PRIZE ‘Devastating’ Anne Enright ‘Beautiful’ Louise Nealon 'Magnificent' Aingeala Flannery 'Masterful' Kathleen MacMahon --- Jean Kennedy is a gentle, perceptive girl growing up in a very strange world: suburban Dublin in the 1970s and '80s. In the company of her mother, her Aunty Ida, and her little brother Baby John F., Jean experiences love and joy. But home is not a safe place, and Jean is unequal and unprotected. When she speaks just one small part of