Scandalous beginnings A brilliant memoir details how a small sex scandal changed a young woman's life in 1950s Belfast

Memoir: This is ostensibly the story of a small scandal that happened to a young woman nearly 50 years ago in Rannafast in the Donegal Gaeltacht when, to quote Heaney, "the future was a verb in hibernation", writes Polly Devlin . Login or subscribe for more.