Catch A Falling Star

The only life Dove McKenna has ever known has been on the open road. She lives with her parents and her brother in a show wagon, performing for people happy enough to pay them for their entertainment, whilst dismissing them as 'gyppos' and 'thieves' behind their backs.

When the McKennas set up camp on a patch of barren land just outside Leeds, Dove and Henry finally get the chance to go to school. And though at St Joseph's they encounter prejudice, they find friendships too. Dove begins to dream of acceptance and perhaps even a better home life. For when sober their father is an

amiable enough soul, but when drunk he can be a monster. And Malachy McKenna is drunk more often than not...