Does My Son Take Sugar?
An Irish Mother's Memoir
The Ireland of the early 1980s was on the brink of enormous change - but in small towns fear of scandal could easily lead the well-meaning into making decisions that led to loss, pain and isolation among the most vulnerable, with a heavy-handed bureaucracy behind the scenes that seemed to lose sight of humane values when it came to the deepest bond of all: the love of mother and child.
