Michael, aged three, is the youngest of Norah Kelly’s five children, siblings orphaned by their mother and abandoned by their father. Michael, the ‘lost’ child is separated from his brothers and sisters. He is then given away, by his adoptive father, to an elderly spinster relative as ‘financial insurance for her old age’. He grows up in a loveless household, saved from loneliness and isolation by his best friend, Paul.
In this “coming of age” of Michael Kelly, and with the Second World War looming, only the perseverance of Mary, his eldest sister, may help theabandoned boy reunite with the Irish family he does not remember.
Ann O'Farrell, 2008
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