'Tis is the story of Frank's American journey from impoverished immigrant with rotten teeth, infected eyes and no formal education to brilliant raconteur and schoolteacher. Saved first by a straying priest, then by the Democratic party, then by the United States Army, then by New York University -- which admitted him on a trial basis though he had no high school diploma -- Frank had the same vulnerable but invincible spirit at nineteen that he had at eight and still has today. And 'Tis is a tale of survival as vivid, harrowing, and often hilarious as Angela's Ashes. Yet again, it is through the power of storytelling that Frank finds a life for himself.

RELEASE NOTES:

To be released at the Daventry meet-up.

Picked up from Sadlers Daventry meet up on 29 / 3 /08

WILD RELEASE NOTES:

'Tis is the follow on from Angela's Ashes and starts with a 19 year old Frank on the boat to America and we follow him through the next 10 years going though cleaning toilets, being in the army, returning on holiday to a homeland, seen through rose tinted glasses in America, but the reality is very different. He then through a combination of study and work goes through college and gets his teaching certificate and goes on to teach in a whole host of high schools. A fantasically crafted book that tranports you to Franks world, with his feet firmly on US soil but his heart still in Ireland.

Will be left at the meeting tonight
on the shelf at The Old Windmill Coventry