Rosita Sweeman's Fathers Come First is a coming-of-age classic set against a Dublin-city backdrop. Elizabeth is both gauche and perspicacious, walking the edge of her stereotypes while hobbled by the pressures of acceptance - social, physical and sexual. In a world informed by a Catholic upbringing, she wonders whether her indiscretions belong in the letterbox or the confession box. Curious, unflinching and disarmingly honest, teenager turned twenty-something Lizzie speaks to the changes and continuities in Irish society across forty years. It is a novel as relevant today as when it was first published.

About the Author
Rosita Sweetman, born in 1948, a Dublin-based writer and journalist, was one of Ireland's earliest and most achieved feminists. She is author of the celebrated 'On Our Knees': Ireland 1972, twenty-four profiles of Irish people north and south, and On Our Backs (1979), twenty-seven further interviews that sketch Ireland's changing sexual attitudes in the last quarter of the twentieth century.

Reviews
This book is more pertinent than ever, because 40 years on, women are still confused about sex and destiny. And fathers still come first - in the political sphere, the artistic sphere.' - Anne Harris, The Sunday Independent.



Book Information
ISBN 9781843516347
Author Rosita Sweetman
Format Paperback
Page Count 168
Imprint The Lilliput Press Ltd
Publisher The Lilliput Press Ltd
Weight(grams) 500g