Dimensions
107 x 177 x 38mm
The eight novels featuring the popular, irrepressible Mary Ann Shaughnessy are collected into two volumes. Volume 1 follows Mary Ann from the ages of eight to thirteen.
The titles include:
'A Grand Man': Mary Ann Shaughnessy seemed an ordinary enough eight-year-old from a dockland tenement on Tyneside. Yet she could lie with the innocence of an angel and the purpose of a priest. Hot in her defence of her father, a ne'er-do-well overfond of the bottle and the betting shops, Mary Ann battled like a one-man army for a better way of life for her family. And to the amazement of the gentle parish priest, Father Owen, and the rage and consternation of her arch-enemy, Sarah Flanagan, Mary Ann's tenacity paid off.
'The Lord And Mary Ann': Mary Ann firmly believed that when her father took on the farm job she had largely contrived to find for him, it would be the making of him. Away from the temptations of the town, doing the kind of work he was meant for, he must surely and slowly turn into the angelic being his young daughter knew him to be. But even the indomitable Mary Ann had reckoned without the frailties of human nature. Resourceful as she was, tough as the Tyneside streets had made her, she had some anxious moments before her plans finally came to fruition . . .
'The Devil And Mary Ann': When Mary Ann Shaughnessy was sent from her native Tyneside to a high-class convent boarding school in the south of England, the idea in her benefactor's mind was that she should be turned into a little lady. And as she herself put it, "I would have been only the Devil put his spoke in. Father Owen said he would. He got in the convent and there wasn't half a shindy!"
'Love And Mary Ann': After three whole years of convent education, in all the things that really matter, Mary Ann is still her old, ebullient, inquisitive and really inimitable self.
