A Man Made to Measure
by Elaine Crowley
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Pub Date Jun 27 2016 | Archive Date Jul 01 2016
Description
Meet Dolly Devoy, the brash new girl at Dublin's Jacob’s Biscuit Factory…
In an unforgettable Irish saga set over the Easter Uprising and the First World War
Dolly Devoy, a bold young Dubliner, has become very sure of herself since being promoted to work in the office of the local biscuit factory. Too sure of herself.
She should need to be a lord’s daughter, like Alice Delahunt, to be that confident.
For Alice the path is smooth, with a glittering marriage to a hero of the Somme. But her husband, Stephen, is no hero to Alice, and she covets another. Her unlikely rival for the love of that man? One Dolly Devoy…
It is an age of great passion and, in Dublin, of seething unrest. Love and war leave no one untouched, and in this story of loss and longing, those who survive are changed for ever.
For readers of Diney Costeloe, Nadine Dorries and Mary Gibson, A Man Made to Measure is an incredibly emotive novel, absorbing and affecting from the get-go.
‘Extremely moving… a splendid, vigorous, warm-hearted novel’ Irish Press
Elaine Crowley was born in Dublin. She left school at fourteen and became an apprentice tailor. She married a soldier, and they lived in Egypt and Germany, before settling down in Port Talbot, Wales. Elaine had six children and numerous grandchildren. Prior to her highly successful writing career she worked as an Avon lady, a dinner lady, and for the personnel department of British Steel. She is perhaps best known for her novels Dreams of Other Days, The Young Wives and A Family Cursed, all written during her latter years. She died in 2011, in Swansea.
Available Editions
| EDITION | Ebook |
| ISBN | 9781910859421 |
| PRICE | £3.99 (GBP) |
Featured Reviews
Reviewer 302786
I was given a copy for a fait and unbiased review.
This is an Irish saga that starts at the beginning of the Easter uprising and through world war 1.
Dolly is an office girl who sings in clubs in her spare time, Dolly has ideas above her station and will not let anybody effect what she wants to do with her life, not even boyfriend Jem O'Brien!! Will Dolly get everything she wished for??
Alice Delehunt is to meet Stephen and marry him, this has been arranged by both sets of parents will they love each other and will they have a happy marriage??
Bessie and Liam are from the country how well will they do in Dublin with there new Eating house will it be all they have dreamed about.
This is a great story with a good mix of characters, how will all there lives turn out will they be how they wished?? Also the story leaves you knowing all the answers.
This is a great story with lots of twists, no life turns out how you wish it too!
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