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Year of first publication: 1990
Edition used: This is a Blackbird, published in 1998
Number of pages: 183

2. The summary
The Rabbitte family lives in Barrytown in Ireland. There are 8 people in the family: Ma (Veronica), Pa (Jimmy sr.), Jimmy jr., Sharon, Darren, Les, Tracy and Linda (they are twins).
In the beginning of the book Sharon tells her parents that she’s pregnant, but she wouldn’t say who the father is.
At first she wouldn’t tell anyone else that she’s pregnant, but after a while she tells it the rest of the family and her 3 best friends Jackie O’Keefe, Mary Curran and Yvonne Burgess. But she also doesn’t tell them who the father is.
Sharon’s father Jimmy sr. goes to a pub a lot. One of his friends, Bimbo Reeves, tells him that George Burgess, Yvonne’s father, had say that Sharon was a great little ride. Jimmy sr. is very angry and tells it to Sharon. She says she doesn’t care, but she goes to Mister Burgess. She says that if he would say anything about her again she would tell ‘it’ to Missis Burgess. This is the point in the book where you find out that Mister Burgess is Sharon’s Baby’s father.
A few days after this accident Mister Burgess walks away from home. He sends Sharon a letter that he wants to see her, but Sharon wouldn’t see him.
After a few days, Missis burgess receives a letter from her husband. He tells her that he has had an affair with a younger girl and that she’s pregnant. He says he loves his wife but that he also loves the girl. Missis Burgess makes a connection with Sharon and soon the whole village knows. Sharon denies it and says the father is a Spanish sailor. Everybody believes her except her father. He is thinking everybody is laughing about him because Sharon is pregnant. First he ignores her, but if Sharon says that she will go away, he is frightened and he beseech her to stay. He buys a book about pregnancy and is more nervous than Sharon.
A few days after this, Sharon gives birth to a daughter, Georgina, but Sharon will call her George. She looks like Mister Burgess, but Sharon doesn’t care.








3. The main character
Sharon is...








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