Desa McClare

The Baby in the Pram Desa McClare

The Baby in the pram is a fantastic moving read of Mark McClare's struggle in life set amongst the working class mining communities of Nottinghamshire. Powerful and emotive it explores the challenges of growing up with a bullying father who most of the time would resort to fisticuffs against his own family, through the challenges of finding love with the love of his life Desa and making a family amidst the challenges of the Miners Strike 1984/85, a life threatening accident, overcoming Cancer to the harrowing loss of his Precious Daughter Nicola through Cancer and the launch of a charity in her name Funny at times, always interesting, profoundly moving but somehow a real page turner which grips you to the end, Mark takes us through many jobs, Miner, the owner of racehorses and Dogs, furniture restorer, selling christmas trees with his garden packed with a few hundred before christmas to dog breeder and building a house on a plot of land in the west of Ireland, it's fundamentally a book about love and grit and getting on with life despite the many challenges, A book for all survivors to show your not alone, and there is hope after al