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      Black Baby

      by Clare Boylan
      Published
      Nov 1989
      Main Genre
      General Fiction General Fiction
      Pages
      210
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      As a child Alice had paid the nuns half a crown to adopt a black baby from the mission in Africa - a baby that never appeared. Now a loveless spinster of sixty-seven, still yearning for a daughter, Alice's life is one of dull predictability, unbroken by the ritual visit from her middle-aged relatives.Then one evening Dinah storms into her home. Bawdy, busty and black, enigmatic friend to the wayward and eccentric, Dinah is about to take on Dublin and transform Alice's life - creating a world of unlimited love and miraculous possibilities...

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      First Edition Nov 1989 Doubleday ISBN13 9780385261012 ISBN10 0385261012
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      Mar 2023 Abacus ISBN13 9780349146171 ISBN10 0349146179
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