Mike Milotte

Banished Babies

The Secret Story of Ireland's Baby Export Business

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Produktbeschreibung

Dublin, summer 1980; Kate Bush is on the radio, Nadia Comaneci is cleaning up at the Olympics and in one house by the Liffey, a spiky but sensitive ten-year-old girl is minding her troubled ma and her two brothers. But when a tragedy splits the family apart, the girl realizes that the only person she can depend on is herself.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: New Island Books
• Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 281
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. April 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 196mm x 130mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 272g
• ISBN-13: 9781848401334
• ISBN-10: 1848401337
• Artikelnr.: 42078302

Autorenporträt

Mike Milotte is a prominent print and television journalist. After almost 20 years as a senior reporter/presenter with Irish Television's Prime Time programme, where he won numerous awards for his documentaries, Mike went freelance in 2009. His two-part programme, Freefall, which tells the story of Ireland's economic and financial collapse, won the 2010 Irish Film & Television Award for best documentary in current affairs. In 2012 he published a greatly expanded and updated version of his bestselling 1997 book, Banished Babies: The Secret History of Ireland's Baby Export Business, which meticulously exposes the scandal surrounding the dispatch of thousands of 'illegitimate' Irish children to the USA for adoption. Mike lives in London.